SYSTEMS OF CLASSICAL PARTICLES IN THE GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE, SCALING LIMITS AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

Abstract

Euclidean quantum fields obtained as solutions of stochastic partial pseudo differential equations driven by a Poisson white noise have paths given by locally integrable functions. This makes it possible to define a class of ultra-violet finite local interactions for these models (in any space-time dimension). The corresponding interacting Euclidean quantum fields can be identified with systems of classical "charged" particles in the grand canonical ensemble with an interaction given by a nonlinear energy density of the "static field" generated by the particles' charges via a "generalized Poisson equation". A new definition of some well-known systems of statistical mechanics is given by formulating the related field theoretic local interactions. The infinite volume limit of such systems is discussed for models with trigonometric interactions using a representation of such models as Widom–Rowlinson models associated with (formal) Potts models at imaginary temperature. The infinite volume correlation functional of such Potts models can be constructed by a cluster expansion. This leads to the construction of extremal Gibbs measures with trigonometric interactions in the low-density high-temperature (LD-HT) regime. For Poissonian models with certain trigonometric interactions an extension of the well-known relation between the (massive) sine-Gordon model and the Yukawa particle gas connecting characteristic and correlation functionals is given and used to derive infinite volume measures for interacting Poisson quantum field models through an alternative route. The continuum limit of the particle systems under consideration is also investigated and the formal analogy with the scaling limit of renormalization group theory is pointed out. In some simple cases the question of (non-) triviality of the continuum limits is clarified.