Authors: Robert Morris
Publish Date: 2009/12/11
Volume: 149, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 417-434
Abstract
We study zerotemperature Glauber dynamics on mathbbZd which is a dynamic version of the Ising model of ferromagnetism Spins are initially chosen according to a Bernoulli distribution with density p and then the states are continuously and randomly updated according to the majority rule This corresponds to the sudden quenching of a ferromagnetic system at high temperature with an external field to one at zero temperature with no external field Define p cmathbbZd to be the infimum over p such that the system fixates at ‘ + ’ with probability 1 It is a folklore conjecture that p cmathbbZd = 1/2 for every 2 le d in mathbbN We prove that p cmathbbZd to 1/2 as d → ∞
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