Mixing times of spin systems on dynamical percolation
Abstract
We study the mixing times of stochastic spin systems corresponding to nearest-neighbour Glauber dynamics on dynamical percolation, defined on -dimensional torus of side-length . In this model, the status of each edge (open or closed) updates independently at rate , according to samples. Simultaneously, the spin of each site updates at rate according to Glauber dynamics on the environment restricted to open edges. We show that for a relatively general class of nearest-neighbour systems, as long as , for any temperature, if is sufficiently small, the mixing time is of order . This Markov chain is non-reversible, and the proof is obtained by developing a particular coupling that couples together local configurations whenever the environment behaves well.
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@article{arxiv.2607.02477,
title = {Mixing times of spin systems on dynamical percolation},
author = {Alexandre Stauffer and Oskar Vavtar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02477},
year = {2026}
}