Massive Modes for Quantum Graphs

Abstract

The spectral two-point function of chaotic quantum graphs is expected to be universal. Within the supersymmetry approach, a proof of that assertion amounts to showing that the contribution of non-universal (or massive) modes vanishes in the limit of infinite graph size. Here we pay particular attention to the fact that the massive modes are defined in a coset space. Using the assumption that the spectral gap of the Perron-Frobenius operator remains finite in the limit, we then argue that the massive modes are indeed negligible.