Exact replica-sector hierarchy of multi-resolvent correlations in random free fermions
Abstract
The spectral weight with which a many-body eigenstate contributes to a given channel is not fixed by the smooth one-point ETH envelope, and its higher-order correlations---the connected cumulants of three and more channel-resolved spectral functions---have lacked a systematic organization. We construct one. In random free fermions, where every channel overlap is a squared Slater minor of a Haar-orthogonal one-body eigenvector matrix, the r-resolvent moment admits an exact replica-sector decomposition: a sum over the double-coset sectors of the orthogonal Weingarten algebra, in which the permutation sectors are the replica contraction classes and each sector value is determined by the overlap pattern of the channels and of the eigenstates. The sector coefficients follow from an exact occupancy-matrix assembly---a signed convolution over the slot permutations, a decomposition into connected blocks, and a finite-state chain transfer matrix whose local transition rules are independent of r and k---so the sector theorem holds at arbitrary finite multiplicity, realized exactly at r=3 (k=2,3,4), r=4 and r=5 (k=2). The structure carries the physical hierarchy: the fully coincident sector is the projection that yields the Selberg moment ratios qr, the levels are nested by exact marginalization, and the sectors are the multi-energy spectral cumulants behind the resolvent cumulants, with the irreducible self-energy vertices of the Feshbach ladder as the connected kernel. The multi-resolvent correlations of random free fermions are therefore organized, level by level, by one replica-sector algebra---an exact microscopic benchmark for the higher-order fluctuation sector of eigenstate thermalization, with its microscopic sector geometry made explicit.
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BibTeX
@misc{huang2026exact,
title = {{Exact replica-sector hierarchy of multi-resolvent correlations in random free fermions}},
author = {Zhiqiang Huang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.00261},
eprint = {2610.00261},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00261},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Exact replica-sector hierarchy of multi-resolvent correlations in random free fermions
AU - Zhiqiang Huang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.00261
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00261
AB - The spectral weight with which a many-body eigenstate contributes to a given channel is not fixed by the smooth one-point ETH envelope, and its higher-order correlations---the connected cumulants of three and more channel-resolved spectral functions---have lacked a systematic organization. We construct one. In random free fermions, where every channel overlap is a squared Slater minor of a Haar-orthogonal one-body eigenvector matrix, the r-resolvent moment admits an exact replica-sector decomposition: a sum over the double-coset sectors of the orthogonal Weingarten algebra, in which the permutation sectors are the replica contraction classes and each sector value is determined by the overlap pattern of the channels and of the eigenstates. The sector coefficients follow from an exact occupancy-matrix assembly---a signed convolution over the slot permutations, a decomposition into connected blocks, and a finite-state chain transfer matrix whose local transition rules are independent of r and k---so the sector theorem holds at arbitrary finite multiplicity, realized exactly at r=3 (k=2,3,4), r=4 and r=5 (k=2). The structure carries the physical hierarchy: the fully coincident sector is the projection that yields the Selberg moment ratios q_r, the levels are nested by exact marginalization, and the sectors are the multi-energy spectral cumulants behind the resolvent cumulants, with the irreducible self-energy vertices of the Feshbach ladder as the connected kernel. The multi-resolvent correlations of random free fermions are therefore organized, level by level, by one replica-sector algebra---an exact microscopic benchmark for the higher-order fluctuation sector of eigenstate thermalization, with its microscopic sector geometry made explicit.
ER -