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Jianping Jiang

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Ising model with Curie-Weiss perturbation

Consider the nearest-neighbor Ising model on $Λ_n:=[-n,n]^d\cap\mathbb{Z}^d$ at inverse temperature $β\geq 0$ with free boundary conditions, and let $Y_n(σ):=\sum_{u\inΛ_n}σ_u$ be its total magnetization. Let $X_n$ be the total magnetization perturbed by a critical Curie-Weiss interaction, i.e., \begin{equation*} \frac{d F_{X_n}}{d F_{Y_n}}(x):=\frac{\exp[x^2/\left(2\langle Y_n^2 \rangle_{Λ_n,β}\right)]}{\left\langle\exp[Y_n^2/\left(2\langle Y_n^2\rangle_{Λ_n,β}\right)]\right\rangle_{Λ_n,β}}, \end{equation*} where $F_{X_n}$ and $F_{Y_n}$ are the distribution functions for $X_n$ and $Y_n$ respectively. We prove that for any $d\geq 4$ and $β\in[0,β_c(d)]$ where $β_c(d)$ is the critical inverse temperature, any subsequential limit (in distribution) of $\{X_n/\sqrt{\mathbb{E}\left(X_n^2\right)}:n\in\mathbb{N}\}$ has an analytic density (say, $f_X$) all of whose zeros are pure imaginary, and $f_X$ has an explicit expression in terms of the asymptotic behavior of zeros for the moment generating function of $Y_n$. We also prove that for any $d\geq 1$ and then for $β$ small, \begin{equation*} f_X(x)=K\exp(-C^4x^4), \end{equation*} where $C=\sqrt{Γ(3/4)/Γ(1/4)}$ and $K=\sqrt{Γ(3/4)}/(4Γ(5/4)^{3/2})$. Possible connections between $f_X$ and the high-dimensional critical Ising model with periodic boundary conditions are discussed.

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The Gaussian process for particle masses in the near-critical Ising model

We review the construction of a stationary Gaussian process $X(t)$ starting from the near-critical continuum scaling limit $Φ^h$ of the Ising magnetization and its relation to the mass spectrum of the relativistic quantum field theory associated to $Φ^h$. Then for the near-critical Ising model on $a \mathbb{Z}^2$ with external field $a^{15/8} h$, we study the renormalized magnetization along a vertical line (with horizontal coordinate approximately $t$) and prove that the limit as $a\downarrow 0$ is the same Gaussian process $X(t)$. We also explore the possible extension of this approach to dimensions $d > 2$.

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Conformal Measure Ensembles and Planar Ising Magnetization: A Review

We provide a review of results on the critical and near-critical scaling limit of the planar Ising magnetization field obtained in the past dozen years. The results are presented in the framework of coupled loop and measure ensembles, and some new proofs are provided.

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The effect of free boundary conditions on the Ising model in high dimensions

We study the critical Ising model with free boundary conditions on finite domains in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with $d\geq4$. Under the assumption, so far only proved completely for high $d$, that the critical infinite volume two-point function is of order $|x-y|^{-(d-2)}$ for large $|x-y|$, we prove the same is valid on large finite cubes with free boundary conditions, as long as $x, y$ are not too close to the boundary. This confirms a numerical prediction in the physics literature by showing that the critical susceptibility in a finite domain of linear size $L$ with free boundary conditions is of order $L^2$ as $L\rightarrow\infty$. We also prove that the scaling limit of the near-critical (small external field) Ising magnetization field with free boundary conditions is Gaussian with the same covariance as the critical scaling limit, and thus the correlations do not decay exponentially. This is very different from the situation in low $d$ or the expected behavior in high $d$ with bulk boundary conditions.

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A Gaussian process related to the mass spectrum of the near-critical Ising model

Let $Φ^h(x)$ with $x=(t,y)$ denote the near-critical scaling limit of the planar Ising magnetization field. We take the limit of $Φ^h$ as the spatial coordinate $y$ scales to infinity with $t$ fixed and prove that it is a stationary Gaussian process $X(t)$ whose covariance function is the Laplace transform of a mass spectral measure $ρ$ of the relativistic quantum field theory associated to the Euclidean field $Φ^h$. Our analysis of the small distance/time behavior of the covariance functions of $Φ^h$ and $X(t)$ shows that $ρ$ is finite but has infinite first moment.

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Exponential decay for the near-critical scaling limit of the planar Ising model

We consider the Ising model at its critical temperature with external magnetic field $ha^{15/8}$ on the square lattice with lattice spacing $a$. We show that the truncated two-point function in this model decays exponentially with a rate independent of $a$. As a consequence, we show exponential decay in the near-critical scaling limit Euclidean magnetization field. For the lattice model with $a=1$, the mass (inverse correlation length) is of order $h^{8/15}$ as $h\downarrow 0$; for the Euclidean field, it equals exactly $Ch^{8/15}$ for some $C$. Although there has been much progress in the study of critical scaling limits, results on near-critical models are far fewer due to the lack of conformal invariance away from the critical point. Our arguments combine lattice and continuum FK representations, including coupled conformal loop and measure ensembles, showing that such ensembles can be useful even in the study of near-critical scaling limits. Thus we provide the first substantial application of measure ensembles.

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A CLT for the total energy of the two-dimensional critical Ising model

Consider the Ising model on $([1,2N]\times[1,2M])\cap\mathbb{Z}^2$ at critical temperature with periodic boundary condition in the horizontal direction and free boundary condition in the vertical direction. Let $E_{M,N}$ be its total energy (or Hamiltonian). Suppose $M$ is a function of $N$ satisfying $M\geq N/(\ln N)^α$ for some $α\in[0,1)$. In particular, one may take $M=N$. We prove that \begin{equation*} \frac{E_{M,N}+4\sqrt{2}M N-(4/π)N\ln N}{\sqrt{(32/π)MN\ln N}} \end{equation*} converges weakly to a standard Gaussian distribution as $N\rightarrow\infty$.

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FK-Ising coupling applied to near-critical planar models

We consider the Ising model at its critical temperature with external magnetic field $ha^{15/8}$ on $a\mathbb{Z}^2$. We give a purely probabilistic proof, using FK methods rather than reflection positivity, that for $a=1$, the correlation length is $\geq const.~h^{-8/15}$ as $h\downarrow0$. We extend to the $a\downarrow0$ continuum limit the FK-Ising coupling for all $h>0$, and obtain tail estimates for the largest renormalized cluster area in a finite domain as well as an upper bound with exponent $1/8$ for the one-arm event. Finally, we show that for $a=1$, the average magnetization, $\mathcal{M}(h)$, in $\mathbb{Z}^2$ satisfies $\mathcal{M}(h)/h^{1/15}\rightarrow$ some $B\in(0,\infty)$ as $h\downarrow0$.

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A note on exponential decay in the random field Ising model

For the two-dimensional random field Ising model (RFIM) with bimodal (i.e., two-valued) external field, we prove exponential decay of correlations either (1) when the temperature is larger than the critical temperature of the Ising model without external field and the magnetic field strength is small or (2) at any temperature when the magnetic field strength is sufficiently large. Unlike previous work on exponential decay, our approach is not based on cluster expansions but rather on arguably simpler methods; these combine an analysis of the Kertész line and a coupling of Ising measures (and also their random cluster representations) with different boundary conditions. We also show similar but weaker results for the RFIM with a general field distribution and in any dimension.

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Critical first-passage percolation starting on the boundary

We consider first-passage percolation on the two-dimensional triangular lattice $\mathcal{T}$. Each site $v\in\mathcal{T}$ is assigned independently a passage time of either $0$ or $1$ with probability $1/2$. Denote by $B^+(0,n)$ the upper half-disk with radius $n$ centered at $0$, and by $c_n^+$ the first-passage time in $B^+(0,n)$ from $0$ to the half-circular boundary of $B^+(0,n)$. We prove \[\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{c_n^+}{\log n}=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2π}~ a.s.,~\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{E c_n^+}{\log n}=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2π},~\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\mathrm{Var}(c_n^+)}{\log n}=\frac{2\sqrt{3}}π-\frac{9}{π^2}.\] These results enable us to prove limit theorems with explicit constants for any first-passage time between boundary points of Jordan domains. In particular, we find the explicit limit theorems for the cylinder point to point and cylinder point to line first-passage times.

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Exploration processes and SLE$_6$

We define radial exploration processes from $a$ to $b$ and from $b$ to $a$ in a domain $D$ of hexagons where $a$ is a boundary point and $b$ is an interior point. We prove the reversibility: the time-reversal of the process from $b$ to $a$ has the same distribution as the process from $a$ to $b$. We show the scaling limit of such an exploration process is a radial SLE$_6$ in $D$. As a consequence, the distribution of the last hitting point with the boundary of any radial SLE$_6$ is harmonic measure. We also prove the scaling limit of a similar exploration process defined in the full complex plane $\mathbb{C}$ is a full-plane SLE$_6$. A by-product of these results is that the time-reversal of a radial SLE$_6$ trace after the last visit to the boundary is a full-plane SLE$_6$ trace up to the first visit of the boundary.

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The difference between a discrete and continuous harmonic measure

We consider a discrete-time, continuous-state random walk with steps uniformly distributed in a disk of radius of $h$. For a simply connected domain $D$ in the plane, let $ω_h(0,\cdot;D)$ be the discrete harmonic measure at $0\in D$ associated with this random walk, and $ω(0,\cdot;D)$ be the (continuous) harmonic measure at $0$. For domains $D$ with analytic boundary, we prove there is a bounded continuous function $σ_D(z)$ on $\partial D$ such that for functions $g$ which are in $C^{2+α}(\partial D)$ for some $α>0$ $$ \lim_{h\downarrow 0} \frac{\int_{\partial D} g(ξ) ω_h(0,|dξ|;D) -\int_{\partial D} g(ξ)ω(0,|dξ|;D)}{h} = \int_{\partial D}g(z) σ_D(z) |dz|. $$ We give an explicit formula for $σ_D$ in terms of the conformal map from $D$ to the unit disc. The proof relies on some fine approximations of the potential kernel and Green's function of the random walk by their continuous counterparts, which may be of independent interest.

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Design Considerations for the Virtual Source/Virtual Destination (VS/VD) Feature in the ABR Service of ATM Networks

The Available Bit Rate (ABR) service in ATM networks has been specified to allow fair and efficient support of data applications over ATM utilizing capacity left over after servicing higher priority classes. One of the architectural features in the ABR specification [tm4] is the Virtual Source/Virtual Destination (VS/VD) option. This option allows a switch to divide an end-to-end ABR connection into separately controlled ABR segments by acting like a destination on one segment, and like a source on the other. The coupling in the VS/VD switch between the two ABR control segments is implementation specific. In this paper, we model a VS/VD ATM switch and study the issues in designing coupling between ABR segments. We identify a number of implementation options for the coupling. A good choice significantly improves the stability and transient performance of the system and reduces the buffer requirements at the switches.

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Performance of TCP over ABR on ATM backbone and with various VBR traffic patterns

We extend our earlier studies of buffer requirements of TCP over ABR in two directions. First, we study the performance of TCP over ABR in an ATM backbone. On the backbone, the TCP queues are at the edge router and not inside the ATM network. The router requires buffer equal to the sum of the receiver window sizes of the participating TCP connections. Second, we introduce various patterns of VBR background traffic. The VBR background introduces variance in the ABR capacity and the TCP traffic introduces variance in the ABR demand. Some simple switch schemes are unable to keep up with the combined effect of highly varying demands and highly varying ABR capacity. We present our experiences with refining the ERICA+ switch scheme to handle these conditions.

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