Odd cutsets and the hard-core model on Z^d

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Abstract: We consider the hard-core lattice gas model on Z^d and investigate its phase structure in high dimensions. We prove that when the intensity parameter exceeds Cd^{-1/3}(log d)^2, the model exhibits multiple hard-core measures, thus improving the previous bound of Cd^{-1/4}(log d)^{3/4} given by Galvin and Kahn. At the heart of our approach lies the study of a certain class of edge cutsets in Z^d, the so-called odd cutsets, that appear naturally as the boundary between different phases in the hard-core model. We provide a refined combinatorial analysis of the structure of these cutsets yielding a quantitative form of concentration for their possible shapes as the dimension d tends to infinity. This analysis relies upon and improves previous results obtained by the first author.


The authors study the hardcore lattice gas on \(\mathbb Z^d\) and study in particular the high-dimensional, high-density situation, where there are multiple (Gibbs) measures. They improve on existing results by Galvin and Kahn, showing that there is a phase transition if the intensity parameter (``activity) is larger than \(C d^{\frac{1}{3}} \log^2 d\), rather than the earlier known \(d^{\frac{1}{4}} (\log d)^{\frac{3}{4}}\). As the actual result is conjectured to behave like \(C d^{-1}\), possibly with logarithmic corrections, this result is not yet optimal, but the arguments are already quite ingenious. The authors use refined combinatorics on ``cutsets which play the roles of contours, separating the odd and even phases. Some of the arguments which they employ were earlier used by Peled.











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