The Derrida-Retaux conjecture on recursive models

DOI10.1214/20-AOP1457MaRDI QIDQ2039412zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Victor Dagard, Zhan Shi, Xinxing Chen, Bernard Derrida, Yueyun Hu, M. A. Lifshits

Publication date 2 July 2021

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01601

zbMATH Keywords

critical exponent hierarchical modelparkingphase transitionpinningspin glassstochastic recursion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: We are interested in the nearly supercritical regime in a family of max-type recursive models studied by Collet, Eckman, Glaser and Martin and by Derrida and Retaux, and prove that under a suitable integrability assumption on the initial distribution, the free energy vanishes at the transition with an essential singularity with exponent $frac12$. This gives a weaker answer to a conjecture of Derrida and Retaux. Other behaviours are obtained when the integrability condition is not satisfied.

Review text

The authors present results in the nearly supercritical regime in a family of maxtype stochastic recursive models studied earlier by \textit{P. Collet} et al. [Commun. Math. Phys. 94, 353--370 (1984; Zbl 0553.60099)] and by \textit{B. Derrida} and \textit{M. Retaux} [J. Stat. Phys. 156, No. 2, 268--290 (2014; Zbl 1312.82005)] and prove that, under a suitable integrability assumption on the initial distribution, the free energy vanishes at the transition with an essential singularity with exponent 1/2. This gives a weaker statement, confirming to some extent a conjecture of Derrida and Retaux [loc. cit.]. Other behaviours are obtained when the integrability condition is not satisfied. These models have a hierarchical structure and have shown up in different contexts (pinning models, parking models and spin glass models). The proven exponent confirming the conjecture Derrida and Retaux contradicts another conjecture in the literature about the exponent.

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