Random tangled currents for ${\phi }^4$: translation invariant Gibbs measures and continuity of the phase transition

Abstract

We prove that the set of automorphism invariant Gibbs measures for the ${\phi }^4$ model on graphs of polynomial growth has at most two extremal measures at all values of $\beta$. We also give a sufficient condition to ensure that the set of all Gibbs measures is a singleton. As an application, we show that the spontaneous magnetisation of the nearest-neighbour ${\phi }^4$ model on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ vanishes at criticality for $d\ge 3$. The analogous results were established for the Ising model in the seminal works of Aizenman, Duminil-Copin, and Sidoravicius (Comm. Math. Phys., 2015), and Raoufi (Ann. Prob., 2020) using the so-called random current representation introduced by Aizenman (Comm. Math. Phys., 1982). One of the main contributions of this paper is the development of a corresponding geometric representation for the ${\phi }^4$ model called the random tangled current representation.

76 pages, 3 figures. Accepted version, to appear in Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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