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Isabel Lammers

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On the Effect of Bottlenecks in Block Spin Models

We study a bottleneck spin model with $N$ spins, split into two Curie-Weiss models at low temperature with a bottleneck between them. We propose multiple ways of how to realize such a bottleneck and study its influence on the phase transition in the thermodynamic limit $N \to \infty$. In all versions of this model we prove the existence of a threshold that determines whether or not the presence of the bottleneck is felt in the phase transition. This threshold depends on the size of the bottleneck and the interaction strength through it.

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The infinite block spin Ising model

We study a block mean-field Ising model with $N$ spins split into $s_N$ blocks, with Curie-Weiss interaction within blocks and nearest-neighbor coupling between blocks. While previous models deal with the block magnetization for a fixed number of blocks, we study the the simultaneous limit $N\to\infty$ and $s_N\to\infty$. The model interpolates between Curie-Weiss model for $s_N=1$, multi-species mean field for fixed $s_N=s$, and the 1D Ising model for each spin in its own block at $s_N=N$. Under mild growth conditions on $s_N$, we prove a law of large numbers and a multivariate CLT with covariance given by the lattice Green's function. For instance, the high temperature CLT essentially covers the optimal range up to $s_N=o(N/(\log N)^c)$ and the low temperature regime is new even for fixed number of blocks $s > 2$. In addition to the standard competition between entropy and energy, a new obstacle in the proofs is a curse of dimensionality as $s_N \to \infty$.

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Subcritical Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos in the Wiener Space: Construction, Moments and Volume Decay

We construct and study properties of an infinite dimensional analog of Kahane's theory of Gaussian multiplicative chaos \cite{K85}. Namely, if $H_T(\omega)$ is a random field defined w.r.t. space-time white noise $\dot B$ and integrated w.r.t. Brownian paths in $d\geq 3$, we consider the renormalized exponential, weighted w.r.t. the Wiener measure $\mathbb P_0$. We construct the almost sure limit $\mu_\gamma$ in the {\it entire weak disorder (subcritical)} regime and call it {\it subcritical GMC} on the Wiener space. We show that $$ \mu_\gamma\Big\{\omega: \lim_{T\to\infty} \frac{H_T(\omega)}{T(\phi\star\phi)(0)} \ne \gamma\Big\}=0 \qquad \mbox{almost surely,} $$ meaning, $\mu_\gamma$ is supported only on $\gamma$-{\it thick paths}, and consequently, the normalized version is singular w.r.t. the Wiener measure. We characterize uniquely the limit $\mu_\gamma$ w.r.t. the mollification scheme $\phi$ in the sense of Shamov \cite{S14} and the random {\it rooted} measure $\mathbb Q_{\mu_\gamma}(d\dot B d\omega)= \mu_\gamma(d\omega,\dot B)P(d\dot B)$. We then determine the fractal properties of the measure around $\gamma$-thick paths: $-C_2 \leq \liminf_{r\to 0} r^2 \log \widehat\mu_\gamma(\|\omega\| < r) \leq \limsup_{r\to 0}\sup_\eta r^2 \log \widehat\mu_\gamma(\|\omega-\eta \| < r) \leq -C_1$ w.r.t a weighted norm $\|\cdot\|$. Here $C_1>0$ and $C_2<\infty$ are the uniform upper (resp. pointwise lower) H\"older exponents which are {\it explicit} in the entire weak disorder regime. Moreover, they converge to the scaling exponent of the Wiener measure as the disorder approaches zero. Finally, we establish negative and $L^p$ ($p>1$) moments for the total mass of $\mu_\gamma$ in the weak disorder regime.

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