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53 changes: 52 additions & 1 deletion Overview-paper/Physics.bib
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Publisher = {Harcourt College Publishers},
Title = {Solid {S}tate {P}hysics},
Year = {1976},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/?format=complete&q=an:1118.82001}}
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/?format=complete&q=an:1118.82001}}

@Article{ashtekar_representation_1993,
author = {Ashtekar, Abhay and Lewandowski, Jerzy},
title = {Representation {{Theory}} of {{Analytic Holonomy C}}* {{Algebras}}},
year = {1993},
month = nov,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {gr-qc/9311010},
eprinttype = {arxiv},
keywords = {General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology,High Energy Physics - Theory,Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry},
timestamp = {2016-06-09T20:19:03Z},
urldate = {2016-06-09}
}

@Article{ashtekar_representations_1992,
author = {Ashtekar, Abhay and Isham, C. J.},
title = {Representations of the holonomy algebras of gravity and non-{{Abelian}} gauge theories},
journal = {Classical and Quantum Gravity},
year = {1992},
volume = {9},
number = {6},
pages = {1433--1467},
month = jun,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
doi = {10.1088/0264-9381/9/6/004},
eprint = {hep-th/9202053},
eprinttype = {arxiv},
issn = {0264-9381, 1361-6382},
keywords = {High Energy Physics - Theory},
timestamp = {2016-06-09T20:18:50Z},
urldate = {2016-06-09}
}

@unpublished{aubrun:2010a,
Author = {Aubrun, Guillaume and Szarek, Stanis{\l}aw and Werner, Elisabeth},
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author = {Dittrich, Bianca and Mizera, Sebastian and Steinhaus, Sebastian},
year = {2014},
note = {arXiv:1409.2407},
}

@Article{dittrich_discrete_2012,
author = {Dittrich, Bianca},
title = {From the discrete to the continuous - towards a cylindrically consistent dynamics},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
year = {2012},
volume = {14},
number = {12},
pages = {123004},
month = dec,
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/14/12/123004},
eprint = {1205.6127},
eprinttype = {arxiv},
issn = {1367-2630},
keywords = {General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology,High Energy Physics - Lattice,Quantum Physics},
timestamp = {2016-06-06T08:39:55Z},
urldate = {2016-06-06}
}

@incollection{divincenzo:1998a,
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Conditioned on the validity of the previously mentioned conjectures, we've produced a sequence of states $|\Psi_m\rangle$ which tend, in the limit, to the (lattice) zero-coupling state. The important observation here is that since each term in our sequence is a MERA the correlation length of $|\Psi_m\rangle$ is given by $\xi_m = a_m\lambda^m$, for some $\lambda>0$. Given that the correlation length $\xi$ of pure Yang-Mills theory is only determined up to a constant which is ultimately fixed by experiment forces us to set the lattice spacing $a_m$ of the state $|\Psi_m\rangle$ to $a_m = a_0\lambda^{-m}$, where $a_0$ is a constant. Thus we have a sequence of states $|\Psi_m\rangle$ for lattices of ever finer discretisation. Each term in the sequence is the result of an isometry applied to a previous term. Further, we can compute all $n$-point functions for this sequence. It turns out that this is enough data to specify a continuum hilbert space and a canonical continuum ground state.

The continuum hilbert space we describe here is known as a \emph{direct limit} of hilbert spaces; in the context we use it here we call this direct limit the \emph{semicontinuous limit} \footnote{This terminology was suggested to us by Vaughan Jones.} to indicate that it doesn't quite correspond to what we might demand of a full continuous quantum Yang-Mills theory. Note that the direct limit is a basic categorical construction (you can read about it further in, e.g., \cite{lang:2002a}). The application of the direct limit to hilbert spaces has a very long history; one early proposal to use the direct limit to model continuum limits can be found in \cite{bimonte_lattices_1996}, but there are surely prior proposals. A recent fascinating attempt to use the direct limit to build continuum limits of lattice theories, in particular, conformal field theories, can be found in \cite{jones_unitary_2014}.
The continuum hilbert space we describe here is known as a \emph{direct limit} of hilbert spaces; in the context we use it here we call this direct limit the \emph{semicontinuous limit} \footnote{This terminology was suggested to us by Vaughan Jones.} to indicate that it doesn't quite correspond to what we might demand of a full continuous quantum Yang-Mills theory. Note that the direct limit is a basic categorical construction (you can read about it further in, e.g., \cite{lang:2002a}). The application of the direct limit to hilbert spaces has a very long history; one early proposal to use the direct limit to model continuum limits can be found in \cite{bimonte_lattices_1996}, but there are surely prior proposals. It is, for example, a standard technique in quantum gravity \cite{ashtekar_representations_1992, ashtekar_representation_1993, dittrich_discrete_2012}. A recent fascinating attempt to use the direct limit to build continuum limits of lattice theories, in particular, conformal field theories, can be found in \cite{jones_unitary_2014}.

Let $\mathcal{D}$ be the directed set of regular partitions of $\mathbb{R}^d$ induced by integer lattices with lattice spacing $a$, i.e., $a\mathbb{Z}^d$. This set is directed by \emph{refinement}, i.e., a partition $Q$ is a \emph{refinement} of $P$, denoted $P \preceq Q$, if every element of $Q$ is a subset of an element of $P$. (A useful mnemonic to remember the ordering is that $Q$ has ``more'' elements than $P$.) We regard every lattice spacing $a$ as giving rise to a \emph{physically different} lattice.

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