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Location of zeros for the partition function of the Ising model on bounded degree graphs

Combinatorics 2022-03-01 v3 Data Structures and Algorithms Mathematical Physics Complex Variables Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

The seminal Lee-Yang theorem states that for any graph the zeros of the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model lie on the unit circle in C\mathbb C. In fact the union of the zeros of all graphs is dense on the unit circle. In this paper we study the location of the zeros for the class of graphs of bounded maximum degree d3d\geq 3, both in the ferromagnetic and the anti-ferromagnetic case. We determine the location exactly as a function of the inverse temperature and the degree dd. An important step in our approach is to translate to the setting of complex dynamics and analyze a dynamical system that is naturally associated to the partition function.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01699,
  title  = {Location of zeros for the partition function of the Ising model on bounded degree graphs},
  author = {Han Peters and Guus Regts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01699},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

24 pages, 3 figures. Made a number of small clarifications, corrections and changes in notation. Results remain unchanged. To appear in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society