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Improved Mixing Bounds for the Anti-Ferromagnetic Potts Model on Z2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Leslie Ann Goldberg ,
Markus Jalsenius ,
Russell Martin  and
Mike Paterson
Leslie Ann Goldberg
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/people/academic/Leslie.Goldberg/
Markus Jalsenius
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~markus
Russell Martin
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~martin/
Mike Paterson
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/people/academic/Mike.Paterson/

Abstract

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The authors of this paper consider the anti-ferromagnetic Potts model on the the integer lattice Z2. The model has two parameters: q, the number of spins, and λ = exp(−β), where β 4 is ‘inverse temperature’. It is known that the model has strong spatial mixing if q > 7, or if q = 7 and λ = 0 or λ > 1/8, or if q = 6 and λ = 0 or λ > 1/4. The λ = 0 case corresponds to the model in which configurations are proper q-colourings of Z2. It is shown that the system has strong spatial mixing for q ≥ 6 and any λ. This implies that Glauber dynamics is rapidly mixing (so there is a fully-polynomial randomised approximation scheme for the partition function), and also that there is a unique infinite-volume Gibbs state. We also show that strong spatial mixing occurs for a larger range of λ than was previously known for q = 3, q = 4 and q = 5.

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Research Article
Information
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 9 , 2006 , pp. 1 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2006

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