Ergodicity of the Wang--Swendsen--Koteck\'y algorithm on several classes of lattices on the torus

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC92AEMaRDI QIDQ6403219arXivFDO

Authors Jesús Salas, Alan D. Sokal

Publication date 27 June 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We prove the ergodicity of the Wang--Swendsen--Koteck'y (WSK) algorithm for the zero-temperature $q$-state Potts antiferromagnet on several classes of lattices on the torus. In particular, the WSK algorithm is ergodic for $qge4$ on any quadrangulation of the torus of girth $ge4$. It is also ergodic for $qge5$ (resp. $qge3$) on any Eulerian triangulation of the torus such that one sublattice consists of degree-4 vertices while the other two sublattices induce a quadrangulation of girth $ge4$ (resp.~a bipartite quadrangulation) of the torus. These classes include many lattices of interest in statistical mechanics.

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