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Local laws and rigidity for Coulomb gases at any temperature

Authors :
Sylvia Serfaty
Scott N. Armstrong
Source :
Ann. Probab. 49, no. 1 (2021), 46-121
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2021.

Abstract

We study Coulomb gases in any dimension $d \geq 2$ and in a broad temperature regime. We prove local laws on the energy, separation and number of points down to the microscopic scale. These yield the existence of limiting point processes generalizing the Ginibre point process for arbitrary temperature and dimension. The local laws come together with a quantitative expansion of the free energy with a new explicit error rate in the case of a uniform background density. These estimates have explicit temperature dependence, allowing to treat regimes of very large or very small temperature, and exhibit a new minimal lengthscale for rigidity depending on the temperature. They apply as well to energy minimizers (formally zero temperature). The method is based on a bootstrap on scales and reveals the additivity of the energy modulo surface terms, via the introduction of subadditive and superadditive approximate energies.<br />Comment: 87 pages, a computational mistake in the proof of Prop. 4.5 corrected. Changes compared to the published version in Annals of Probability are highlighted in color

Details

ISSN :
00911798
Volume :
49
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Annals of Probability
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....026591b608a0cdd6f30b262d20383f85
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1214/20-aop1445