Relaxation time is monotone in temperature in the mean-field Ising model (Q553015)

The Glauber dynamics on a complete graph were already studied as early as 1966 by \textit{R. B. Griffiths, C.-Y. Weng} and \textit{J. S. Langer} [``Relaxation times for metastable states in the mean-field model of a ferromagnet'', Phys. Rev. 149, No.~1, 301--305 (1966), \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRev.149.301}], who showed that the relaxation time is exponentially growing in the number of vertices provided that the temperature is below a critical threshold. Recently, this model has been investigated by \textit{D. A. Levin, M. J. Luczak} and \textit{Y. Peres} [Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 146, No.~1--2, 223--265 (2010; Zbl 1187.82076)] and \textit{J. Ding, E. Lubetzky} and \textit{Y. Peres} [Commun. Math. Phys. 289, No.~2, 725--764 (2009; Zbl 1173.82018)] from the point of view of the theory of finite Markov chains. They proved that the Diaconis cutoff phenomenon [\textit{P. Diaconis}, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, No.~4, 1659--1664 (1996; Zbl 0849.60070)] holds in this model when the temperature is above the threshold. In addition, these papers investigated the convergence to equilibrium near the critical temperature and in the slow-convergence regime. In this paper, the author considers the Glauber dynamics for the mean-field Ising model, when all couplings are equal and the external field is uniform. It is proved that the relaxation time of the dynamics is monotonically decreasing in temperature.