Applications of Supersymmetric Polynomials in Statistical Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a correspondence between the partition functions of ideal gases consisting of both bosons and fermions and the algebraic bases of supersymmetric polynomials on the Banach space of absolutely summable two-sided sequences ℓ1(Z0). Such an approach allows us to interpret some of the combinatorial identities for supersymmetric polynomials from a physical point of view. We consider a relation of equivalence for ℓ1(Z0), induced by the supersymmetric polynomials, and the semi-ring algebraic structures on the quotient set with respect to this relation. The quotient set is a natural model for the set of energy levels of a quantum system. We introduce two different topological semi-ring structures into this set and discuss their possible physical interpretations.

Keywords

• quantum ideal gas
• grand partition function
• supersymmetric polynomials on Banach spaces
• algebraic basis
• topological semi-ring
• tropical semi-ring