Metastability of the Potts Ferromagnet on Random Regular Graphs

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Titel: Metastability of the Potts Ferromagnet on Random Regular Graphs

Beteiligte: Coja-Oghlan, Amin [VerfasserIn]; Galanis, Andreas [VerfasserIn]; Goldberg, Leslie Ann [VerfasserIn]; Ravelomanana, Jean Bernoulli [VerfasserIn]; Štefankovič, Daniel [VerfasserIn]; Vigoda, Eric [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.45

Schlagwörter: Markov chains ; random regular graph ; sampling ; Potts model

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Beschreibung: We study the performance of Markov chains for the q-state ferromagnetic Potts model on random regular graphs. While the cases of the grid and the complete graph are by now well-understood, the case of random regular graphs has resisted a detailed analysis and, in fact, even analysing the properties of the Potts distribution has remained elusive. It is conjectured that the performance of Markov chains is dictated by metastability phenomena, i.e., the presence of "phases" (clusters) in the sample space where Markov chains with local update rules, such as the Glauber dynamics, are bound to take exponential time to escape, and therefore cause slow mixing. The phases that are believed to drive these metastability phenomena in the case of the Potts model emerge as local, rather than global, maxima of the so-called Bethe functional, and previous approaches of analysing these phases based on optimisation arguments fall short of the task. Our first contribution is to detail the emergence of the metastable phases for the q-state Potts model on the d-regular random graph for all integers q,d ≥ 3, and establish that for an interval of temperatures, delineated by the uniqueness and a broadcasting threshold on the d-regular tree, the two phases coexist. The proofs are based on a conceptual connection between spatial properties and the structure of the Potts distribution on the random regular graph, rather than complicated moment calculations. This significantly refines earlier results by Helmuth, Jenssen, and Perkins who had established phase coexistence for a small interval around the so-called ordered-disordered threshold (via different arguments) that applied for large q and d ≥ 5. Based on our new structural understanding of the model, we obtain various algorithmic consequences. We first complement recent fast mixing results for Glauber dynamics by Blanca and Gheissari below the uniqueness threshold, showing an exponential lower bound on the mixing time above the uniqueness threshold. Then, we obtain tight results even ...

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