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Droplets obstruct Onsager-type solutions of the Ising model in a magnetic field

Ran Luo, Jiahua Tian

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:2610.20569

Abstract

Onsager solved the two-dimensional Ising model in zero field, but no solution is known in a magnetic field. We prove that in any dimension d2, at every fixed dimensionless field outside a countable set, the free energy obeys no algebraic differential equation in the coupling, even locally. The obstruction arises from droplet geometry: the maximal droplet volume grows as the d/(d-1) power of its boundary size, while an integer band in the pressure coefficients protects the extremal contributions against cancellation. Our result excludes Onsager-type solutions and closed forms in elliptic, hypergeometric, or Painlevé functions of the coupling at these fields.

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