REPLICA CONDENSATION AND TREE DECAY

We give an intuitive method — using local, cyclic replica symmetry — to isolate exponential tree decay in truncated (connected) correlations. We give an expansion and use the symmetry to show that all terms vanish, except those displaying replica condensation. The condensation property ensures exponential tree decay. We illustrate our method in a low-temperature Ising system, but expect that one can use a similar method in other random field and quantum field problems. While considering the illustration, we prove an elementary upper bound on the entropy of random lattice surfaces.