Improved Peierls Argument for High Dimensional Ising Models

Abstract

We consider the low temperature expansion for the Ising model on $\Z^d$, $d \ge 2$, with ferromagnetic nearest neighbor interactions in terms of Peierls contours. We prove that the expansion converges for all temperatures smaller than $C d (\log d)^{-1}$, which is the correct order in $d$.