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Definition of an essentially RPA field

We will say that the field $a$ is of an ``essentially RPA'' type if:

  1. The phase factors are statistically independent and uniformly distributed variables up to $O({\epsilon}^2)$ corrections, i.e.
    \begin{displaymath} {\cal P}^{(N)} \{s, \xi \} = {1 \over (2 \pi)^{N} } {\cal P}^{(N,a)} \{s \} \; [1 + O({\epsilon}^2)], \end{displaymath} (4)

    where
    \begin{displaymath} {\cal P}^{(N,a)} \{s \} = \left( \prod_{ l {\cal 2 B}_N } ... ...1} } \vert d \xi_l\vert \; \right) {\cal P}^{(N)} \{s, \xi \}, \end{displaymath} (5)

    is the $N$-mode amplitude PDF.

  2. The amplitude variables are almost independent is a sense that for each $M \ll N$ modes the $M$-mode amplitude PDF is equal to the product of the one-mode PDF's up to $O(M/N)$ and $o({\epsilon}^2)$ corrections,
    \begin{displaymath} {\cal P}_{j_1, j_2, \dots , j_M} = P^{(a)}_{j_1} P^{(a)}_{j_2} \dots P^{(a)}_{j_M} \; [1 + O(M/N) + O({\epsilon}^2)]. \end{displaymath} (6)


Dr Yuri V Lvov 2007-01-17