Random-cluster dynamics in Z^2: rapid mixing with general boundary conditions

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Abstract: The random-cluster model with parameters (p,q) is a random graph model that generalizes bond percolation (q=1) and the Ising and Potts models (qgeq2). We study its Glauber dynamics on nimesn boxes Lambdan of the integer lattice graph mathbbZ2, where the model exhibits a sharp phase transition at p=pc(q). Unlike traditional spin systems like the Ising and Potts models, the random-cluster model has non-local interactions. Long-range interactions can be imposed as external connections in the boundary of Lambdan, known as boundary conditions. For select boundary conditions that do not carry long-range information (namely, wired and free), Blanca and Sinclair proved that when q>1 and peqpc(q), the Glauber dynamics on Lambdan mixes in optimal O(n2logn) time. In this paper, we prove that this mixing time is polynomial in n for every boundary condition that is realizable as a configuration on mathbbZ2setminusLambdan. We then use this to prove near-optimal ildeO(n2) mixing time for "typical boundary conditions. As a complementary result, we construct classes of non-realizable (non-planar) boundary conditions inducing slow (stretched-exponential) mixing at pllpc(q).




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