Stochastic Processes on a Lattice and Gibbs Measures
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Bernard Prum, Jean Claude Fort.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1991
SERIES
Series Title
Mathematical Physics Studies, A Supplementary Series to Letter in Mathematical Physics, 11
CONTENTS NOTE
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1 - Aspects of the Ising Model.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Peieris's Argument.- 3. Imposed Field, Thermodynamic Quantities.- 4. The Unidimensional Case and Tree.- 5. Antiferromagnetism.- 2 - Gibbs Measures.- 1. The DLR Problem.- 2. The Structure of G.- 3. Gibbs Specifications, Gibbs Measures.- 4. Relations with Thermodynamics.- 3 - The Existence of Gibbs Measures.- 1. Markovian Properties.- 2. Existence of Gibbs Measures when ? is Finite.- 3. Existence of Gibbs Measures - the General Case.- 4. Models of the P(?)-Type, Gaussian Gibbs Measures S.- 4 - Phase Transitions - 1: Methods of Convex Analysis.- 1. Holley's Inequality.- 2. The FKG Inequality.- 3. Attracting Specifications.- 4. The Ising Model on ?2.- 5. Symmetry Breaking on ?d for d ? 3.- 5 - Other Inequalities.- 1. Urse11 Functions.- 2. GK S Inequalities.- 3. The GHS Inequality.- 4. The Simon-Lieb Inequality.- S. Additional Inequalities.- 6 - Phase Transitions - 2: Phase Diagrams and Perturbed Hamiltonians.- 1. Fundamental Configurations.- 2. Perturbed Hamiltonians.- 3. The Pirogov-Sinai Theorem.- 4. Boundary Models.- S. Principle of the Proof.- 7 - Phase Transitions - 3: Positive Reflexivity.- 1. Reflexive Positivity.- 2. The Unidimensional Case.- 3. Checkerboard Estimate.- 4. Gaussian Domination.- 5. The Infrared Domination.- 8 - Continuous Symmetry and Other Methods.- 1. The Case of Continuous Symmetry.- 2. The Lack of Symmetry Breaking when d = 2.- 3. Spontaneous Magnetization when d ? 3.- 4. Onsager s Method.- 5. Combinatorial Approach.- 6. The Lee-Yang Theorem.- 9 - The Dynamics of Ising Systems.- 1. Introduction.- 2. A Finite Number of Sites.- 3. An Infinite Number of Sites.- 10 - Statistics and Applications.- 1. Ergodicity.- 2. Statistics.- 3. Image Processing.- 4. Other Applications.