Symmetry classes connected with the magnetic Heisenberg ring
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Publication:6206653
DOI10.1088/1742-6596/104/1/012035arXiv0709.0104MaRDI QIDQ6206653FDOQ6206653
Authors: Bernd Fiedler 
Publication date: 2 September 2007
Abstract: We define symmetry classes and commutation symmetries in the Hilbert space H of the 1D spin-1/2 Heisenberg magnetic ring with N sites and investigate them by means of tools from the representation theory of symmetric groups S_N such as decompositions of ideals of the group ring C[S_N], idempotents of C[S_N], discrete Fourier transforms of S_N, Littlewood-Richardson products. In particular, we determine smallest symmetry classes and stability subgroups of both single eigenvectors v and subspaces U of eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian of the magnet. The determination of the smallest symmetry class for U bases on an algorithm which calculates explicitely a generating idempotent for a non-direct sum of right ideals of C[S_N]. Let U be a subspace of eigenvectors of a a fixed eigenvalue mu of the Hamiltonian with weight (r_1,r_2). If one determines the smallest symmetry class for every v in U then one can observe jumps of the symmetry behaviour. For generic v all smallest symmetry classes have the same maximal dimension d and structure. But U can contain linear subspaces on which the dimension of the smallest symmetry class of v jumps to a value smaller than d. Then the stability subgroup of v can increase. We can calculate such jumps explicitely. In our investigations we use computer calculations by means of the Mathematica packages PERMS and HRing.
Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Simple and semisimple modules, primitive rings and ideals in associative algebras (16D60) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to combinatorics (05-04)
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