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(Jeff_L) #1

The reason one can explicitly compute such integral is that the measure factors


dμN,K=dμ|ρ|⊗dμΩ (A.5)

Trρ=‖ψ‖^2 depends only on the first, radial, coordinate while Trρ


2
(Trρ)^2 depends only
on the second, angular, part

dμN,KTr


(


ρ^2

)


=



dμΩ

Trρ^2
(Trρ)^2


dμ|ρ|(Trρ)^2

=



dμN,K

Trρ^2
(Trρ)^2


dμN,K(Trρ)^2 (A.6)

( AssumingdμNKnormalized.) The integral in Eq. (A.4) is reduced to (ratio of)
two Gaussian integrals. Wick theorem (for the standard normal distribution) gives

dμN,KTr


(


ρ^2

)


=



jkαβ


dμψξαjξ ̄βjξ ̄βkξαk

=



jkαβ

(δαβ+δjk)

=NK(K+N) (A.7)


Similarly

dμN,K(Trρ)^2 =



jkαβ


dμGξαjξ ̄αjξ ̄βkξβk

=



jkαβ

(1 +δjkδαβ)

=NK(NK+ 1) (A.8)


So finally, ∫


dμN,K

Trρ^2
(Tr ρ)^2

=


N+K


KN+ 1


(A.9)


This reduces to Eq. (6.9) whenN=K.
The computation of higher moments can be similarly reduced to a (tedious)
combinatoric problem.


B The N dimensional unit cube is almost a ball


The fact thatDNlooks like a ball in most directions is a general fact about convex
bodies in high dimensions. It is instructive to see this happening for the unit cube

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