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Exact compact U(1) rotor plus finite CAR data
Definition
Assume Countable Choice. Let be a finite oriented graph with nonempty finite vertex set , nonempty finite link set , endpoint maps , and a finite list of oriented simple cycles. Parallel links and self-loops are allowed. An oriented simple cycle is a finite closed path using each link at most once; write for its signed use of link , so its signed incidence at every vertex is zero. Fix enumerations and , where and . Write and , and set with normalized Haar measure and product measure on .
The coordinatewise map is a well-defined measure-preserving group isomorphism for the normalized product Haar measures. The fixed enumeration of identifies with ; pulling back the Fourier characters along gives . Thus the Fourier basis theorem The Fourier basis and Parseval's identity on the finite torus, whose torus is and whose characters are , gives an orthonormal basis of . The second-variable-linear pairing used below is the conjugate of the first-variable-linear pairing in that theorem, so orthonormality and completeness are unchanged.
Fix an integer and let with orthonormal modes , . This is finite-dimensional and hence separable. Fix the lexicographic order on induced by the chosen order on and the usual order on . Use the antisymmetric Fock space and second-variable-linear inner product convention of Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions. The current draft supplier Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains states that, assuming Countable Choice, is a Hilbert space and its creation and annihilation operators are bounded and satisfy the CAR; that supplier is still a draft carrier, not an accepted result in this run. For , put and write for the ordered wedge basis vector of Finite fermion-mode occupation basis. This is a complete orthonormal basis of ; changing the chosen order changes individual wedge vectors only by signs. Write , , and . On , acts by ; it is bounded self-adjoint with spectrum contained in .
Use the second-variable-linear pairing . The kinematical Hilbert space is where has the same completion norm as Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases and the second-variable-linear pairing obtained by conjugating its first-variable-linear tensor pairing, as in Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions. Concretely, the tensor supplier is applied to the conjugate first-variable-linear pairings and , and the resulting tensor pairing is conjugated; this preserves the norm and the product-basis assertion. Consequently is a complete orthonormal basis of by the product-basis assertion of Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases. This is the joint basis used for all diagonal multipliers below. Write . All matter operators previously defined on act on as identity on the rotor factor tensor that operator. On the full kinematical basis define Thus is the maximal real diagonal multiplier, self-adjoint with integer spectrum, and on its domain its coefficients are . Define the bounded unitary as multiplication by on the rotor factor and identity on the matter factor. Equivalently, Each preserves , since and the coefficient sequence is square summable; its inverse preserves that domain by the same estimate. Computing on coefficients gives on .
Fix background integers . In the joint basis define the real integer multiplier and let be its maximal diagonal operator, with domain . On the common link-electric domain this is the finite sum . These are the Gauss operators; the operator constraint defines . For define the diagonal multiplier ; the next lemma proves that these operators form a strongly continuous representation and that their normalized Haar average is the orthogonal projection onto .
For each , choose a Hermitian matrix , and for each link choose a matrix . Choose real coefficients and for . Write and The operator is the diagonal multiplier with domain where ranges over occupation configurations with each , and is the eigenvalue of on that basis vector. The coefficients and entries of are ordinary real or complex scalars here; no physical units are assigned. Set on . This is a mathematical finite-graph regulator definition. It asserts no physical adoption, continuum limit, Lorentz invariance, or identification with a particular continuum QED model.
For sign comparison only, if a smooth path in a smooth manifold , a real connection one-form , and a real function are supplied, take for real . Under , the fundamental theorem along the supplied path gives the endpoint factor . This is an edgewise sign comparison: it has the same source-minus-target angle pattern as the finite vertex-phase convention. Neither nor is evaluated by ; they are vertices in , whereas are points of . No map or compatible paths for the whole graph are supplied, and no continuum limit is asserted.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The joint Fourier/occupation basis and the coefficient formula for in the Definition.
The Fourier characters form an orthonormal basis by The Fourier basis and Parseval's identity on the finite torus, the finite occupation vectors form an orthonormal basis by Finite fermion-mode occupation basis, and their tensor products form an orthonormal basis of by Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases. In these coordinates the second-variable-linear pairing is .
Proof
Given: [F1] and the displayed maximal domain and action of .
The finite-support span of the joint basis lies in and is dense, so is densely defined. For a densely defined operator with this pairing, exactly when some satisfies for every , in which case . Testing this identity on gives , so and . Conversely, for the coordinate sums and Cauchy--Schwarz give for every . Thus and .
Every integer is an eigenvalue of , by taking a joint basis vector with . If , set and define on basis coefficients by multiplication by . Then is bounded with norm at most , and shows that . Hence is an everywhere-defined bounded inverse of . By the definition of spectrum as the complement of those with such an inverse, .
Remarks
The statements involving and its CAR operators are conditional on Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains as it appears on the current batch-37 QFT-MF01 manifest. I inspected its actual statement and full draft proof: it assumes Countable Choice, a complex Hilbert space and the second-variable-linear convention, and states bounded CAR operators on the whole Fock space. The actual interface matches this finite-dimensional and the uses above. Its item and the Fock definition remain drafts without a current Step-1 readiness record in this run; the arguments here remain conditional and do not treat draft status as proof acceptance. The finite occupation basis is established locally by Finite fermion-mode occupation basis.
Depends on
Finite fermion-mode occupation basis
Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions
Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains
The Fourier basis and Parseval's identity on the finite torus
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()