TY - JOUR
T1 - TIGHTNESS AND TAILS OF THE MAXIMUM IN 3D ISING INTERFACES
AU - Gheissari, Reza
AU - Lubetzky, Eyal
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where the last equality is again by our weak convergence assumption. Together, this implies that, for every x ∈ R, we have Gk(x + ak) = G(x); having established this for every k ≥ 2, we find that G is max-stable, yet G is discrete, contradicting the fact that the only (nondegenerate) max-stable distributions are continuous ones, belonging to one of the three classes of extreme value distributions (see, e.g., [21], Theorem 1.3.1). □ Acknowledgments. We are grateful to an anonymous referee for valuable comments. E.L. was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-1812095.
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PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Consider the 3D Ising model on a box of side length n with minus boundary conditions above the xy-plane and plus boundary conditions below it. At low temperatures, Dobrushin (1972) showed that the interface separating the predominantly plus and predominantly minus regions is localized: its height above a fixed point has exponential tails. Recently, the authors proved a law of large numbers for the maximum height Mn of this interface: for every β large, Mn/log n cβ in probability as n ∞ Here, we show that the laws of the centered maxima (Mn — (Formula presented)[Mn])n >1 are uniformly tight. Moreover, even though this sequence does not converge, we prove that it has uniform upper and lower Gumbel tails (exponential right tails and doubly exponential left tails). Key to the proof is a sharp (up to O(1) precision) understanding of the surface large deviations. This includes, in particular, the shape of a pillar that reaches near-maximum height, even at its base, where the interactions with neighboring pillars are dominant.
AB - Consider the 3D Ising model on a box of side length n with minus boundary conditions above the xy-plane and plus boundary conditions below it. At low temperatures, Dobrushin (1972) showed that the interface separating the predominantly plus and predominantly minus regions is localized: its height above a fixed point has exponential tails. Recently, the authors proved a law of large numbers for the maximum height Mn of this interface: for every β large, Mn/log n cβ in probability as n ∞ Here, we show that the laws of the centered maxima (Mn — (Formula presented)[Mn])n >1 are uniformly tight. Moreover, even though this sequence does not converge, we prove that it has uniform upper and lower Gumbel tails (exponential right tails and doubly exponential left tails). Key to the proof is a sharp (up to O(1) precision) understanding of the surface large deviations. This includes, in particular, the shape of a pillar that reaches near-maximum height, even at its base, where the interactions with neighboring pillars are dominant.
KW - 3D ising model
KW - low temperature interface
KW - maximum of random surface
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U2 - 10.1214/20-AOP1459
DO - 10.1214/20-AOP1459
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120935386
SN - 0091-1798
VL - 49
SP - 732
EP - 792
JO - Annals of Probability
JF - Annals of Probability
IS - 2
ER -