Cutoff for the Swendsen-Wang dynamics on the lattice

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Abstract: We study the Swendsen-Wang dynamics for the q-state Potts model on the lattice. Introduced as an alternative algorithm of the classical single-site Glauber dynamics, the Swendsen-Wang dynamics is a non-local Markov chain that recolors many vertices at once based on the random-cluster representation of the Potts model. In this work we derive strong enough bounds on the mixing time, proving that the Swendsen-Wang dynamics on the lattice at sufficiently high temperatures exhibits a sharp transition from "unmixed" to "well-mixed," which is called the cutoff phenomenon. In particular, we establish that at high enough temperatures the Swendsen-Wang dynamics on the torus (mathbbZ/nmathbbZ)d has cutoff at time fracd2left(log(1gamma)ight)1logn, where is the spectral gap of the infinite-volume dynamics.



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