| Título: | Glauber dynamics on nonamenable graphs: boundary conditions and mixing time |
| Autores: | Bianchi, Alessandra; Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) |
| Fecha: | 2008-01-01 |
| Publicador: | Electronic journal of probability |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
Peer-reviewed Article |
| Tema: |
Glauber dynamics; nonamenable graphs; spectral gap; mixing time 82C20; 60K35; 82B20; 82C80 |
| Descripción: | We study the stochastic Ising model on finite graphs with n vertices and bounded degree and analyze the effect of boundary conditions on the mixing time. We show that for all low enough temperatures, the spectral gap of the dynamics with (+)-boundary condition on a class of nonamenable graphs, is strictly positive uniformly in n. This implies that the mixing time grows at most linearly in n. The class of graphs we consider includes hyperbolic graphs with sufficiently high degree, where the best upper bound on the mixing time of the free boundary dynamics is polynomial in n, with exponent growing with the inverse temperature. In addition, we construct a graph in this class, for which the mixing time in the free boundary case is exponentially large in n. This provides a first example where the mixing time jumps from exponential to linear in n while passing from free to (+)-boundary condition. These results extend the analysis of Martinelli, Sinclair and Weitz to a wider class of nonamenable graphs. |
| Idioma: | No aplica |
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