One-Sided Versus Two-Sided Stochastic Descriptions

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DOI10.1007/978-3-030-29077-1_2zbMATH Open1446.82023arXiv1812.06155OpenAlexW2978056879MaRDI QIDQ3296406FDOQ3296406

A. C. D. van Enter

Publication date: 7 July 2020

Published in: Statistical Mechanics of Classical and Disordered Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well-known that discrete-time finite-state Markov Chains, which are described by one-sided conditional probabilities which describe a dependence on the past as only dependent on the present, can also be described as one-dimensional Markov Fields, that is, nearest-neighbour Gibbs measures for finite-spin models, which are described by two-sided conditional probabilities. In such Markov Fields the time interpretation of past and future is being replaced by the space interpretation of an interior volume, surrounded by an exterior to the left and to the right. If we relax the Markov requirement to weak dependence, that is, continuous dependence, either on the past (generalising the Markov-Chain description) or on the external configuration (generalising the Markov-Field description), it turns out this equivalence breaks down, and neither class contains the other. In one direction this result has been known for a few years, in the opposite direction a counterexample was found recently. Our counterexample is based on the phenomenon of entropic repulsion in long-range Ising (or "Dyson") models.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06155





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