In SO(d)- and O(d)-invariant sectors of the U(N) d-matrix harmonic oscillator, microcanonical heat capacity is negative at low energy and turns positive at kcrit ~ N^2/4, producing a caloric fold analogous to AdS black holes.
Molien--Weyl Singlet Counting and BFSS$_2$--Factorization in Gaussian Matrix QM
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We study the singlet-sector structure of mass-deformed BFSS$_{d+1}$ matrix quantum mechanics by combining the large--\(d\) Gaussian reduction with the Molien--Weyl projection. The Gaussian reduction captures the bulk matrix dynamics through a gauged harmonic oscillator, while the Molien--Weyl integral imposes the Gauss law and reorganizes the physical Hilbert space into holonomy-projected singlet excitations. We show that the very-low-temperature bosonic singlet spectrum is universally controlled by the quadratic Gram operators \(\Tr(X_aX_b)\), whose number is \(d(d+1)/2\). For \(N=2\), this result is established by explicit residue computations and character methods; for \(N>2\), it is supported by the character analysis. Thus the infrared spectrum begins as a collection of BFSS$_2$--like Gram towers, although higher invariant structures generally modify the full partition function. We also give a Hamiltonian derivation of the exceptional exact factorization at \((d,N)=(2,2)\), where the BFSS$_3$ singlet partition function equals the cube of the BFSS$_2$ one for all temperatures. This rigidity is special to the \(SU(2)\) invariant tensor structure and explains why \(d=1\) and \(N=2\) are exceptional regimes without a deconfinement crossover. Finally, we extend the Gram-counting picture to supersymmetric BFSS/BMN models and indicate how the Molien--Weyl formulation can benchmark Monte Carlo simulations in both \(X_a\)-space and holonomy space.
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