Introduction to Supersymmetric Theory of Stochastics

TL;DR

This paper introduces the supersymmetric theory of stochastics (STS), a unified framework explaining spontaneous dynamical long-range order (DLRO) in complex systems through supersymmetry breaking, connecting various interdisciplinary concepts.

Contribution

It provides a concise, self-contained introduction to STS, a novel approximation-free theory that unifies understanding of DLRO across disciplines.

Findings

DLRO corresponds to supersymmetry breaking in STS

STS unifies concepts from dynamical systems, cohomology, and stochastic processes

The theory offers a universal explanation for phenomena like turbulence and chaos

Abstract

Many natural and engineered dynamical systems, including all living objects, exhibit signatures of what can be called spontaneous dynamical long-range order (DLRO). This order's omnipresence has long been recognized by the scientific community, as evidenced by a myriad of related concepts, theoretical and phenomenological frameworks, and experimental phenomena such as turbulence, $1/f$ noise, dynamical complexity, chaos and the butterfly effect, the Richter scale for earthquakes and the scale-free statistics of other sudden processes, self-organization and pattern formation, self-organized criticality, etc. Although several successful approaches to various realizations of DLRO have been established, the universal theoretical understanding of this phenomenon remained elusive. The possibility of constructing a unified theory of DLRO has emerged recently within the approximation-free supersymmetric theory of stochastics (STS). There, DLRO is the spontaneous breakdown of the topological or de Rham supersymmetry that all stochastic differential equations (SDEs) possess. This theory may be interesting to researchers with very different backgrounds because the ubiquitous DLRO is a truly interdisciplinary entity. The STS is also an interdisciplinary construction. This theory is based on dynamical systems theory, cohomological field theories, the theory of pseudo-Hermitian operators, and the conventional theory of SDEs. Reviewing the literature on all these mathematical disciplines can be time-consuming. As such, a concise and self-contained introduction to the STS, the goal of this paper, may be useful.