Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-12-26
Annales Henri Poincare 6 (2005) 1025-1090
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
67 pages, 2 figures. Presentation changed to a more formal style, conclusions streamlined, minor errors corrected. Version acc
Scientific paper
The hyperbolic spin chain is used to elucidate the notion of spontaneous symmetry breaking for a non-amenable internal symmetry group, here SO(1,2). The noncompact symmetry is shown to be spontaneously broken -- something which would be forbidden for a compact group by the Mermin-Wagner theorem. Expectation functionals are defined through the L \to \infty limit of a chain of length L; the functional measure is found to have its weight mostly on configurations boosted by an amount increasing at least powerlike with L. This entails that despite the non-amenability a certain subclass of noninvariant functions is averaged to an SO(1,2) invariant result. Outside this class symmetry breaking is generic. Performing an Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction based on the infinite volume averages one finds that the reconstructed quantum theory is different from the original one. The reconstructed Hilbert space is nonseparable and contains a separable subspace of ground states of the reconstructed transfer operator on which SO(1,2) acts in a continuous, unitary and irreducible way.
Niedermaier Max
Seiler Erhard
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