Mathematics – Operator Algebras
Scientific paper
2008-06-23
Mathematics
Operator Algebras
330 pages, numerous figures
Scientific paper
A resistance network is a weighted graph $(G,c)$ with intrinsic (resistance) metric $R$. We embed the resistance network into the Hilbert space ${\mathcal H}_{\mathcal E}$ of functions of finite energy. We use the resistance metric to study ${\mathcal H}_{\mathcal E}$, and vice versa and show that the embedded images of the vertices $\{v_x\}$ form a reproducing kernel for this Hilbert space. We also obtain a discrete version of the Gauss-Green formula for resistance networks and show that resistance networks which support nonconstant harmonic functions of finite energy have a certain type of \emph{boundary}. We obtain an analytic boundary representation for the harmonic functions of finite energy in a sense analogous to the Poisson or Martin boundary representations, but with different hypotheses, and for a different class of functions. In the process, we construct a dense space of "smooth" functions of finite energy and obtain a Gel'fand triple for ${\mathcal H}_{\mathcal E}$. This allows us to represent the resistance network as a system of Gaussian random variables indexed by vertices. We also study the spectral representation for $\Delta$ on ${\mathcal H}_{\mathcal E}$ and show how nonzero defect entails a nontrivial boundary. All of the above are are detected by the operator theory of ${\mathcal H}_{\mathcal E}$ but not $\ell^2$. Our results apply to the Heisenberg model for the isotropic ferromagnet, improving earlier results of R. T. Powers on the problem of long-range order (in reference to KMS states on the $C^\ast$-algebra of the model).
Jorgensen Palle E. T.
Pearse Erin P. J.
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