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Non-Gibbsian measures on the lattice, in mean-field and in between

Probability

Speaker: Christof Kuelske, University of Groningen
Location: 1147 MSB
Start time: Wed, Nov 15 2006, 2:10PM

Description

Many examples of seemingly harmless transformations of lattice spin measures in mathematical statistical mechanics are known to destroy the Gibbs property. This is caused by the emergence of non-localities in the joint measure. Less known, corresponding phenomena also exist for mean-field (exchangeable)  systems, with a suitable notion of mean-field Gibbsianness.  We describe results for this in both lattice and mean field models, focussing on  stochastic time-evolutions for which non-Gibbsianness was only recently discovered.  We also discuss the relation to disordered systems and large deviations,  and conjecture how lattice and mean-field results may be linked  by a Kac-(long range-) limit. Joint work with: A.C.D. van Enter,  A. Le Ny,  A. Opoku, F. Redig.