Refined Asymptotics of the Finite-Size Magnetization via a New Conditional Limit Theorem for the Spin

arXiv1205.0970MaRDI QIDQ6232780FDOQ6232780

Authors: Richard S. Ellis, Jingran Li 

Publication date: 4 May 2012

Abstract: We study the fluctuations of the spin per site around the thermodynamic magnetization in the mean-field Blume-Capel model. Our main theorem generalizes the main result in a previous paper (Ellis, Machta, and Otto) in which the first rigorous confirmation of the statistical mechanical theory of finite-size scaling for a mean-field model is given. In that paper our goal is to determine whether the thermodynamic magnetization is a physically relevant estimator of the finite-size magnetization. This is done by comparing the asymptotic behaviors of these two quantities along parameter sequences converging to either a second-order point or the tricritical point in the mean-field Blume-Capel model. The main result is that the thermodynamic magnetization and the finite-size magnetization are asymptotic when the parameter $alpha$ governing the speed at which the sequence approaches criticality is below a certain threshold $alph{a}_0$. Our main theorem in the present paper on the fluctuations of the spin per site around the thermodynamic magnetization is based on a new conditional limit theorem for the spin, which is closely related to a new conditional central limit theorem for the spin.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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