Equi-Energy sampling does not converge rapidly on the mean-field Potts model with three colors close to the critical temperature

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AB7422zbMATH Open1514.82249arXiv1904.00394MaRDI QIDQ6316461FDOQ6316461

Authors: Mirko Ebbers, M. Löwe 

Publication date: 31 March 2019

Abstract: Equi-Energy Sampling (EES, for short) is a method to speed up the convergence of the Metropolis chain, when the latter is slow. We show that there are still models like the mean-field Potts model, where EES does not converge rapidly in certain temperature regimes. Indeed we will show that EES is slowly mixing on the mean-field Potts model, in a regime below the critical temperature. Though we will concentrate on the Potts model with three colors, our arguments remain valid for any number of colors $qge3$, if we adapt the temperature regime. For the situation of the mean-field Potts model this answers a question posed in cite{HuaKou}.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods in Markov chains (60J22) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Monte Carlo methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics (82M31)

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