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On the decay of correlations in the random field Ising model

Mathematical Physics 2018-03-14 v3 math.MP Probability

Abstract

In a celebrated 1990 paper, Aizenman and Wehr proved that the two-dimensional random field Ising model has a unique infinite volume Gibbs state at any temperature. The proof is ergodic-theoretic in nature and does not provide any quantitative information. This article proves the first quantitative version of the Aizenman-Wehr theorem. The proof introduces a new method for proving decay of correlations that may be interesting in its own right. A fairly detailed sketch of the main ideas behind the proof is also included.

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@article{arxiv.1709.04151,
  title  = {On the decay of correlations in the random field Ising model},
  author = {Sourav Chatterjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04151},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages. Proof reorganized for better readability. To appear in Comm. Math. Phys