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Theoretical Analysis of Acceptance Rates in Multigrid Monte Carlo

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We analyze the kinematics of multigrid Monte Carlo algorithms by investigating acceptance rates for nonlocal Metropolis updates. With the help of a simple criterion we can decide whether or not a multigrid algorithm will have a chance to overcome critial slowing down for a given model. Our method is introduced in the context of spin models. A multigrid Monte Carlo procedure for nonabelian lattice gauge theory is described, and its kinematics is analyzed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9210025,
  title  = {Theoretical Analysis of Acceptance Rates in Multigrid Monte Carlo},
  author = {Martin Grabenstein and Klaus Pinn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9210025},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figures, (talk at LATTICE 92 in Amsterdam)