A Mermin--Wagner theorem for Gibbs states on Lorentzian triangulations

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Abstract

We establish a Mermin--Wagner type theorem for Gibbs states on infinite random Lorentzian triangulations (LT) arising in models of quantum gravity. Such a triangulation is naturally related to the distribution P\sf P of a critical Galton--Watson tree, conditional upon non-extinction. At the vertices of the triangles we place classical spins taking values in a torus MM of dimension dd, with a given group action of a torus G{\tt G} of dimension d′≤dd'\leq d. In the main body of the paper we assume that the spins interact via a two-body nearest-neighbor potential U(x,y)U(x,y) invariant under the action of G{\tt G}. We analyze quenched Gibbs measures generated by UU and prove that, for P\sf P-almost all Lorentzian triangulations, every such Gibbs measure is G{\tt G}-invariant, which means the absence of spontaneous continuous symmetry-breaking.

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