Dyson models under renormalization and in weak fields

Abstract

We consider one-dimensional long-range spin models (usually called Dyson models), consisting of Ising ferromagnets with slowly decaying long-range pair potentials of the form $\frac{1}{|i-j|^{\alpha}}$ mainly focusing on the range of slow decays $1 < \alpha \leq 2$. We describe two recent results, one about renormalization and one about the effect of external fields at low temperature. The first result states that a decimated long-range Gibbs measure in one dimension becomes non-Gibbsian, in the same vein as comparable results in higher dimensions for short-range models. The second result addresses the behaviour of such models under inhomogeneous fields, in particular external fields which decay to zero polynomially as $(|i|+1)^{- \gamma}$. We study how the critical decay power of the field, $\gamma$, for which the phase transition persists and the decay power $\alpha$ of the Dyson model compare, extending recent results for short-range models on lattices and on trees. We also briefly point out some analogies between these results.