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Semiclassical expansion for the thermodynamic limit of the ground state energy of Kac's operator

Bernard Helffer, Thierry Ramond (2000)

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We continue the study started by the first author of the semiclassical Kac Operator. This kind of operator has been obtained for example by M. Kac as he was studying a 2D spin lattice by the so-called “transfer operator method”. We are interested here in the thermodynamical limit Λ ( h ) of the ground state energy of this operator. For Kac’s spin model, Λ ( h ) is the free energy per spin, and the semiclassical regime corresponds to the mean-field approximation. Under suitable assumptions, which...