Quasi-polynomial mixing of the 2D stochastic Ising model with "plus" boundary up to criticality

Details Quasi-polynomial mixing of the 2D stochastic Ising model with "plus" boundary up to criticality Quasi-polynomial mixing of the 2D stochastic Ising model with "plus" boundary up to criticality

2010-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1012.1271v1

Mathematics

Probability

45 pages, 14 figures

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We considerably improve upon the recent result of Martinelli and Toninelli on the mixing time of Glauber dynamics for the 2D Ising model in a box of side $L$ at low temperature and with random boundary conditions whose distribution $P$ stochastically dominates the extremal plus phase. An important special case is when $P$ is concentrated on the homogeneous all-plus configuration, where the mixing time $T_{mix}$ is conjectured to be polynomial in $L$. In [MT] it was shown that for a large enough inverse-temperature $\beta$ and any $\epsilon >0$ there exists $c=c(\beta,\epsilon)$ such that $\lim_{L\to\infty}P(T_{mix}\geq \exp({c L^\epsilon}))=0$. In particular, for the all-plus boundary conditions and $\beta$ large enough $T_{mix} \leq \exp({c L^\epsilon})$. Here we show that the same conclusions hold for all $\beta$ larger than the critical value $\beta_c$ and with $\exp({c L^\epsilon})$ replaced by $L^{c \log L}$ (i.e. quasi-polynomial mixing). The key point is a modification of the inductive scheme of [MT] together with refined equilibrium estimates that hold up to criticality, obtained via duality and random-line representation tools for the Ising model. In particular, we establish new precise bounds on the law of Peierls contours which quantitatively sharpen the Brownian bridge picture established e.g. in [Greenberg-Ioffe (2005)],[Higuchi (1979)],[Hryniv (1998)].

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