Torus plateaux in high-dimensional critical phenomena
- 👤 Speaker: Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia)
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 10 July 2024, 11:45 - 12:45
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
Boundary conditions play an important role in the finite-size scaling of critical statistical mechanical models in high dimensions. For periodic boundary conditions, the critical two-point function decays at small distances like the infinite-volume two-point function, but at larger distances it levels off to a constant “plateau” value. This phenomenon has been proved for self-avoiding walk and spin systems in dimensions d>4 and for percolation in dimensions d>6. Results for a hierarchical spin model lead, via a universality hypothesis, to striking conjectures for universal scaling profiles and non-Gaussian limits. This talk will give a survey of recent collaborations with Tom Hutchcroft, Yucheng Liu, Emmanuel Michta, Romain Panis, and Jiwoon Park.
Series This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.
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Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia)
Wednesday 10 July 2024, 11:45-12:45