Decimation limits of principal algebraic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions

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Autores principales: Arzhakova, Elizaveta, Lind, Douglas, Schmidt, Klaus, Verbitskiy, Evgeny
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author Arzhakova, Elizaveta
Lind, Douglas
Schmidt, Klaus
Verbitskiy, Evgeny
author_facet Arzhakova, Elizaveta
Lind, Douglas
Schmidt, Klaus
Verbitskiy, Evgeny
contents Let $f$ be a Laurent polynomial in $d$ commuting variables with integer coefficients. Associated to $f$ is the principal algebraic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-action $α_f$ on a compact subgroup $X_f$ of $\mathbb{T}^{\mathbb{Z}^d}$ determined by $f$. Let $N\ge1$ and restrict points in $X_f$ to coordinates in $N\mathbb{Z}^d$. The resulting algebraic $N\mathbb{Z}^d$-action is again principal, and is associated to a polynomial $g_N$ whose support grows with $N$ and whose coefficients grow exponentially with $N$. We prove that by suitably renormalizing these decimations we can identify a limiting behavior given by a continuous concave function on the Newton polytope of $f$, and show that this decimation limit is the negative of the Legendre dual of the Ronkin function of $f$. In certain cases with two variables, the decimation limit coincides with the surface tension of random surfaces related to dimer models, but the statistical physics methods used to prove this are quite different and depend on special properties of the polynomial.
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spellingShingle Decimation limits of principal algebraic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions
Arzhakova, Elizaveta
Lind, Douglas
Schmidt, Klaus
Verbitskiy, Evgeny
Dynamical Systems
37A15, 37A35, 37A44, 13F20
Let $f$ be a Laurent polynomial in $d$ commuting variables with integer coefficients. Associated to $f$ is the principal algebraic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-action $α_f$ on a compact subgroup $X_f$ of $\mathbb{T}^{\mathbb{Z}^d}$ determined by $f$. Let $N\ge1$ and restrict points in $X_f$ to coordinates in $N\mathbb{Z}^d$. The resulting algebraic $N\mathbb{Z}^d$-action is again principal, and is associated to a polynomial $g_N$ whose support grows with $N$ and whose coefficients grow exponentially with $N$. We prove that by suitably renormalizing these decimations we can identify a limiting behavior given by a continuous concave function on the Newton polytope of $f$, and show that this decimation limit is the negative of the Legendre dual of the Ronkin function of $f$. In certain cases with two variables, the decimation limit coincides with the surface tension of random surfaces related to dimer models, but the statistical physics methods used to prove this are quite different and depend on special properties of the polynomial.
title Decimation limits of principal algebraic $\mathbb{Z}^d$-actions
topic Dynamical Systems
37A15, 37A35, 37A44, 13F20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04408