Decimation limits of principal algebraic \mathbb{Z}^d-actions

Authors Elizaveta Arzhakova, Douglas Lind, Klaus Schmidt, Evgeny Verbitskiy

Publication date 9 April 2021

Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials (13F20) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44)

Abstract: Let

f

be a Laurent polynomial in

d

commuting variables with integer coefficients. Associated to

f

is the principal algebraic

m a t h b b Z^{d}

-action

a l p h a_{f}

on a compact subgroup

X_{f}

of

m a t h b b T^{m a t h b b Z^{d}}

determined by

f

. Let

N g e 1

and restrict points in

X_{f}

to coordinates in

N m a t h b b Z^{d}

. The resulting algebraic

N m a t h b b Z^{d}

-action is again principal, and is associated to a polynomial

g_{N}

whose support grows with

N

and whose coefficients grow exponentially with

N

. We prove that by suitably renormalizing these decimations we can identify a limiting behavior given by a continuous concave function on the Newton polytope of

f

, and show that this decimation limit is the negative of the Legendre dual of the Ronkin function of

f

. In certain cases with two variables, the decimation limit coincides with the surface tension of random surfaces related to dimer models, but the statistical physics methods used to prove this are quite different and depend on special properties of the polynomial.

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