## Rapid convergence to equilibrium of stochastic Ising models in the Dobrushin Shlosman regime.(English)Zbl 0621.60118

Percolation theory and ergodic theory of infinite particle systems, Proc. Workshop IMA, Minneapolis/Minn. 1984/85, IMA Vol. Math. Appl. 8, 1-11 (1987).
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We show that, under the conditions of the Dobrushin Shlosman theorem for uniqueness of the Gibbs state, the reversible stochastic Ising model converges to equilibrium exponentially fast on the $$L^ 2$$ space of that Gibbs state. For stochastic Ising models with attractive interactions and under conditions which are somewhat stronger than Dobrushin’s, we prove that the semi-group of the stochastic Ising model converges to equilibrium exponentially fast in the uniform norm. We also give a new, much shorter, proof of a theorem which says that if the semi-group of an attractive spin flip system converges to equilibrium faster than $$1/t^ d$$ where d is the dimension of the underlying lattice, then the convergence must be exponentially fast.
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### MSC:

 60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

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