Range of a Transient 2d-Random Walk

We study the range of a planar random walk on a randomly oriented lattice, already known to be transient. We prove that the expectation of the range grows linearly, in both the quenched (for a.e. orientation) and annealed ("averaged") cases. We also express the rate of growth in terms of the quenched Green function and eventually prove a weak law of large numbers in the (non-Markovian) annealed case.Comment: 9 page

Parsimonious Description of Generalized Gibbs Measures : Decimation of the 2d-Ising Model

In this paper, we detail and complete the existing characterizations of the decimation of the Ising model on $\Z^2$ in the generalized Gibbs context. We first recall a few features of the Dobrushin program of restoration of Gibbsianness and present the construction of global specifications consistent with the extremal decimated measures. We use them to consider these renormalized measures as almost Gibbsian measures and to precise its convex set of DLR measures. We also recall the weakly Gibbsian description and complete it using a potential that admits a quenched correlation decay, i.e. a well-defined configuration-dependent length beyond which this potential decays exponentially. We use these results to incorporate these decimated measures in the new framework of parsimonious random fields that has been recently developed to investigate probability aspects related to neurosciences.Comment: 32 pages, preliminary versio

Spin-Flip Dynamics of the Curie-Weiss Model: Loss of Gibbsianness with Possibly Broken Symmetry

We study the conditional probabilities of the Curie-Weiss Ising model in vanishing external field under a symmetric independent stochastic spin-flip dynamics and discuss their set of points of discontinuity (bad points). We exhibit a complete analysis of the transition between Gibbsian and non-Gibbsian behavior as a function of time, extending the results for the corresponding lattice model, where only partial answers can be obtained. For initial temperature β^−1 ≥ 1, we prove that the time-evolved measure is always Gibbsian. For ⅔ ≤ β^−1 < 1, the time-evolved measure loses its Gibbsian character at a sharp transition time. For β^−1 < ⅔, we observe the new phenomenon of symmetry-breaking in the set of points of discontinuity: Bad points corresponding to non-zero spin-average appear at a sharp transition time and give rise to biased non-Gibbsianness of the time-evolved measure. These bad points become neutral at a later transition time, while the measure stays non-Gibbs. In our proof we give a detailed description of the phase-diagram of a Curie-Weiss random field Ising model with possibly non-symmetric random field distribution based on bifurcation analysis.

A functional limit theorem for a 2D-random walk with dependent marginals

We prove a non-standard functional limit theorem for a two dimensional simple random walk on some randomly oriented lattices. This random walk, already known to be transient, has different horizontal and vertical fluctuations leading to different normalizations in the functional limit theorem, with a non-Gaussian horizontal behavior. We also prove that the horizontal and vertical components are not asymptotically independent

Random walks on FKG-horizontally oriented lattices

We study the asymptotic behavior of the simple random walk on oriented version of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. The considered latticesare not directed on the vertical axis but unidirectional on the horizontal one, with symmetric random orientations which are positively correlated. We prove that the simple random walk is transient and also prove a functionnal limit theorem in the space of cadlag functions, with an unconventional normalization.Comment: 16 page

Decimation of the Dyson-Ising Ferromagnet

We study the decimation to a sublattice of half the sites, of the one-dimensional Dyson-Ising ferromagnet with slowly decaying long-range pair interactions of the form $\frac{1}{{|i-j|}^{\alpha}}$, in the phase transition region (1< $\alpha \leq$ 2, and low temperature). We prove non-Gibbsianness of the decimated measure at low enough temperatures by exhibiting a point of essential discontinuity for the finite-volume conditional probabilities of decimated Gibbs measures. Thus result complements previous work proving conservation of Gibbsianness for fastly decaying potentials ($\alpha$ > 2) and provides an example of a "standard" non-Gibbsian result in one dimension, in the vein of similar resuts in higher dimensions for short-range models. We also discuss how these measures could fit within a generalized (almost vs. weak) Gibbsian framework. Moreover we comment on the possibility of similar results for some other transformations.Comment: 18 pages, some corrections and references added, to appear in Stoch.Proc.App

Gibbs Measures for Long-Range Ising Models

This review-type paper is based on a talk given at the conference États de la Recherche en Mécanique statistique, which took place at IHP in Paris (December 10-14, 2018). We revisit old results from the 80's about one dimensional long-range polynomially decaying Ising models (often called Dyson models in dimension one) and describe more recent results about interface fluctuations and interface states in dimensions one and two