{"title":"Random Covers of Compact Surfaces and Smooth Linear Spectral Statistics","authors":"Frédéric Naud","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01551-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01551-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider random <i>n</i>-covers <span>(X_n)</span> of an arbitrary compact hyperbolic surface <i>X</i>. We show that in the large <i>n</i> regime and small window limit, the variance of the smooth spectral statistics of the Laplacian <span>(Delta _rho )</span> twisted by a unitary representation, obey the universal laws of GOE and GUE random matrices, depending on wether the representation <span>(rho )</span> preserves or breaks the time reversal symmetry. These results are in accordance with the semiclassical heuristics of Berry (Stochastic processes in classical and quantum systems, Springer, Berlin, 1986; Chaotic behavior of deterministic systems, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1983) and are a discrete analog of a recent work of Rudnick (Geom. Funct. Anal. 33(6), 1581-1607 2023) for the Weil-Petersson model of random surfaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 1","pages":"347 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145948091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Almost Sure GOE Fluctuations of Energy Levels for Hyperbolic Surfaces of High Genus","authors":"Zeév Rudnick, Igor Wigman","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01552-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01552-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the variance of a linear statistic of the Laplace eigenvalues on a hyperbolic surface, when the surface varies over the moduli space of all surfaces of fixed genus, sampled at random according to the Weil–Petersson measure. The ensemble variance of the linear statistic was recently shown to coincide with that of the corresponding statistic in the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) of random matrix theory, in the double limit of first taking large genus and then shrinking size of the energy window. In this note, we show that in this same limit, the (smooth) energy variance for a typical surface is close to the GOE result, a feature called “ergodicity” in the random matrix theory literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"26 6","pages":"2279 - 2291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12134012/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144236084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymptotic Equipartition Theorems in von Neumann Algebras","authors":"Omar Fawzi, Li Gao, Mizanur Rahaman","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01545-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01545-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) in information theory shows that independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) states behave as uniform states on its typical subspace. In particular, such a phenomenon can be expressed as that asymptotically, the min- and the max-relative entropy under appropriate smoothing coincide with the relative entropy. In this paper, we generalize several such equipartition properties to states on general von Neumann algebras. First, we show that the smooth max-relative entropy of i.i.d. states on a von Neumann algebra has an asymptotic rate given by the quantum relative entropy. In fact, our AEP not only applies to states, but also to quantum channels with appropriate restrictions. In addition, going beyond the i.i.d. assumption, we show that for states that are produced by a sequential process of quantum channels, the smooth max-relative entropy can be upper-bounded by the sum of appropriate channel relative entropies. Our main technical contributions are to extend to the context of general von Neumann algebras a chain rule for quantum channels, as well as an additivity result for the channel relative entropy with a replacer channel.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 1","pages":"95 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145948095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation of Singularities with Normally Hyperbolic Trapping","authors":"Qiuye Jia","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01550-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01550-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We prove a new microlocal estimate with normally hyperbolic trapping, which can be applied to Kerr and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes. We use a new type of symbol class, and corresponding operator class, which is constructed by blowing up the intersection of the unstable manifold and fiber infinity. For scalar wave equations on Kerr and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes, the extra loss of the microlocal estimates compared with the standard propagation of singularities without trapping is arbitrarily small.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 1","pages":"221 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145948070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pleijel’s Theorem for Schrödinger Operators","authors":"Philippe Charron, Corentin Léna","doi":"10.1007/s00023-024-01536-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-024-01536-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We are concerned in this paper with the real eigenfunctions of Schrödinger operators. We prove an asymptotic upper bound for the number of their nodal domains, which implies in particular that the inequality stated in Courant’s theorem is strict, except for finitely many eigenvalues. Results of this type originated in 1956 with Pleijel’s theorem on the Dirichlet Laplacian and were obtained for some classes of Schrödinger operators by the first author, alone and in collaboration with B. Helffer and T. Hoffmann-Ostenhof. Using methods in part inspired by work of the second author on Neumann and Robin Laplacians, we greatly extend the scope of these previous results.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"26 3","pages":"759 - 786"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00023-024-01536-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. B. Kapengut, M. K.-H. Kiessling, E. Ling, A. S. Tahvildar-Zadeh
{"title":"On the Discrete Dirac Spectrum of General-Relativistic Hydrogenic Ions with Anomalous Magnetic Moment","authors":"E. B. Kapengut, M. K.-H. Kiessling, E. Ling, A. S. Tahvildar-Zadeh","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01547-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01547-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Reissner–Weyl–Nordström (RWN) spacetime of a point nucleus features a naked singularity for the empirically known nuclear charges <i>Ze</i> and masses <span>(M = A(Z,N)m_{textrm{p}})</span>, where <span>(m_{textrm{p}})</span> is the proton mass and <span>(A(Z,N)approx Z+N)</span> the atomic mass number, with <i>Z</i> the number of protons and <i>N</i> the number of neutrons in the nucleus. The Dirac Hamiltonian for a test electron with mass <span>(m_{textrm{e}})</span>, charge <span>(-,e)</span>, and anomalous magnetic moment <span>(mu _a (approx -, frac{1}{4pi }frac{e^3}{m_{textrm{e}}c^2}))</span> in the electrostatic RWN spacetime of such a “naked point nucleus” is known to be essentially self-adjoint, with a spectrum that consists of the union of the essential spectrum <span>((-,infty ,-,m_{textrm{e}}c^2]cup [m_{textrm{e}}c^2, infty ))</span> and a discrete spectrum of infinitely many eigenvalues in the gap <span>((-,m_{textrm{e}}c^2,m_{textrm{e}}c^2))</span>, having <span>(m_{textrm{e}}c^2)</span> as accumulation point. In this paper, the discrete spectrum is characterized in detail for the first time, for all <span>(Zle 45)</span> and <i>A</i> that cover all known isotopes. The eigenvalues are mapped one-to-one to those of the traditional Dirac hydrogen spectrum. Numerical evaluations that go beyond <span>(Z=45)</span> into the realm of not-yet-produced hydrogenic ions are presented, too. A list of challenging open problems concludes this publication.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 2","pages":"609 - 643"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00023-025-01547-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147339565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José M. Gracia-Bondía, Karl-Henning Rehren, Joseph C. Várilly
{"title":"The Full Electroweak Interaction: An Autonomous Account","authors":"José M. Gracia-Bondía, Karl-Henning Rehren, Joseph C. Várilly","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01540-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01540-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The precise renormalizable interactions in the bosonic sector of electroweak theory are intrinsically determined in the autonomous approach to perturbation theory. This proceeds directly on the Hilbert–Fock space built on the Wigner unirreps of the physical particles, with their given masses: those of three massive vector bosons, a photon, and a massive scalar (the “higgs”). Neither “gauge choices” nor an unobservable “mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking” is invoked. Instead, to proceed on Hilbert space requires using string-localized fields to describe the vector bosons. In such a framework, the condition of string independence of the <span>({mathbb {S}})</span>-matrix yields consistency constraints on the coupling coefficients, the essentially unique outcome being the experimentally known one. The analysis can be largely carried out for other configurations of massive and massless vector bosons, paving the way towards consideration of consistent mass patterns beyond those of the electroweak theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"26 12","pages":"4529 - 4574"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00023-025-01540-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145449664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boundedness of the Fifth Derivative for the One-Particle Coulombic Density Matrix at the Diagonal","authors":"Peter Hearnshaw","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01548-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01548-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Boundedness is demonstrated for the fifth derivative of the one-particle reduced density matrix for non-relativistic Coulombic wavefunctions in the vicinity of the diagonal. To prove this result, improved pointwise bounds are obtained for cluster derivatives of wavefunctions involving multiple clusters.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 2","pages":"645 - 689"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12913313/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146228700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert Fulsche, Medet Nursultanov, Grigori Rozenblum
{"title":"Negative Eigenvalue Estimates for the 1D Schrödinger Operator with Measure-Potential","authors":"Robert Fulsche, Medet Nursultanov, Grigori Rozenblum","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01549-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01549-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the negative part of the spectrum of the operator <span>(-partial ^2 - mu )</span> on <span>(L^2(mathbb {R}))</span>, where a locally finite Radon measure <span>(mu ge 0)</span> serves as a potential. We obtain estimates for the eigenvalue counting function, for individual eigenvalues and estimates of the Lieb–Thirring type. A crucial tool for our estimates is Otelbaev’s function, a certain average of the measure-potential <span>(mu )</span>, which is used both in the proofs and the formulation of most of the results.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 2","pages":"569 - 607"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12913335/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146229693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pauli–Villars Regularised Free Energy of Dirac’s Vacuum in Purely Magnetic Fields","authors":"Umberto Morellini","doi":"10.1007/s00023-025-01544-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00023-025-01544-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Dirac vacuum is a nonlinear polarisable medium rather than an empty space. This nonlinear behaviour starts to be significant for extremely large electromagnetic fields such as the magnetic field on the surface of certain neutron stars. Even though the null temperature case was deeply studied in the past decades, the problem at nonzero temperature needs to be better understood. In this work, we present the first rigorous derivation of the one-loop effective magnetic Lagrangian at positive temperature, a nonlinear functional describing the free energy of the Dirac vacuum in a classical magnetic field. After introducing our model, we properly define the free energy functional using the Pauli–Villars regularisation technique in order to remove the worst ultraviolet divergences, which represent a well-known issue of the theory. The study of the properties of this functional is addressed before focusing on the limit of slowly varying classical magnetic fields. In this regime, we prove the convergence of this functional to the Euler–Heisenberg formula with thermal corrections, recovering the effective Lagrangian first derived by Dittrich (Phys Rev D 19:2385–2390, 1979).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":463,"journal":{"name":"Annales Henri Poincaré","volume":"27 2","pages":"529 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147339723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}