Stein's method for positively associated random variables with applications to the Ising and voter models, bond percolation, and contact process

DOI10.1214/16-AIHP808zbMATH Open1393.60030arXiv1603.05322MaRDI QIDQ1635976FDOQ1635976

Authors: Larry Goldstein, Nathakhun Wiroonsri 

Publication date: 1 June 2018

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide non-asymptotic $L^1$ bounds to the normal for four well-known models in statistical physics and particle systems in $mathbb{Z}^d$; the ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor Ising model, the supercritical bond percolation model, the voter model and the contact process. In the Ising model, we obtain an $L^1$ distance bound between the total magnetization and the normal distribution at any temperature when the magnetic moment parameter is nonzero, and when the inverse temperature is below critical and the magnetic moment parameter is zero. In the percolation model we obtain such a bound for the total number of points in a finite region belonging to an infinite cluster in dimensions $dge2$, in the voter model for the occupation time of the origin in dimensions $dge7$, and for finite time integrals of non-constant increasing cylindrical functions evaluated on the one dimensional supercritical contact process started in its unique invariant distribution. The tool developed for these purposes is a version of Stein's method adapted to positively associated random variables. In one dimension, letting $$ be a positively associated mean zero random vector with components that obey the bound $|x{i}_i|leB,i=1,ldots,m$, and whose sum $W=su{m}_{i=1}^{m}x{i}_i$ has variance 1, it holds that ${\displaystyle }$ d_1 left(mathcal{L}(W),mathcal{L}(Z) ight) leq 5B + sqrt{frac{8}{pi}}sum_{i eq j} mathbb{E}[xi_i xi_j] ${\displaystyle }$ where $Z$ has the standard normal distribution and $d_1(cdot,cdot)$ is the $L^1$ metric. Our methods apply in the multidimensional case with the $L^1$ metric replaced by a smooth function metric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05322

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zbMATH Keywords

random fieldspositive dependencecorrelation inequalityblock dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields (60G60) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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