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Zero-temperature phase diagram for double-well type potentials in the summable variation class

Dynamical Systems 2016-09-28 v2

Abstract

We study the zero-temperature limit of the Gibbs measures of a class of long-range potentials on a full shift of two symbols {0,1}\{0,1\}. These potentials were introduced by Walters as a natural space for the transfer operator. In our case, they are locally constant, Lipschitz continuous or, more generally, of summable variation. We assume there exists exactly two ground states: the fixed points 00^\infty and 11^\infty. We fully characterize, in terms of the Peierls barrier between the two ground states, the zero-temperature phase diagram of such potentials, that is, the regions of convergence or divergence of the Gibbs measures as the temperature goes to zero.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08071,
  title  = {Zero-temperature phase diagram for double-well type potentials in the summable variation class},
  author = {Rodrigo Bissacot and Eduardo Garibaldi and Philippe Thieullen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08071},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

27 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

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