Macroscopic relaxation conjecture for lozenge Glauber dynamics

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Let UU, φ\varphi and their discretizations (UL,φL)L≥1(U_L,\varphi_L)_{L\ge1} be as above, and let htηh_t^\eta denote the height function under Glauber dynamics started from an arbitrary initial condition η\eta. Let ϕˉ\bar\phi be the equilibrium limit shape and let LL be the scaling parameter. Macroscopic relaxation conjecture. For every δ>0\delta>0 there exists c(δ)<∞c(\delta)<\infty such that, whatever the initial condition η\eta, at times t>c(δ)L2+δt>c(\delta)L^{2+\delta}, with probability tending to 11 as L→∞L\to\infty, one has for every vertex v∈ULv\in U_L that

∣htη(v)−ϕˉ(v)∣=o(1).|h_t^\eta(v)-\bar\phi(v)|=o(1).

Thus, within time L2+o(1)L^{2+o(1)}, the interface is expected to macroscopically approximate the equilibrium shape to any pre-assigned precision. The conjecture concerns relaxation to the limit shape rather than full convergence to equilibrium; the source does not report a proof or disproof.

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Benoit Laslier and Fabio Lucio Toninelli, “Lozenge tilings, Glauber dynamics and macroscopic shape”, arXiv:1310.5844 (2013).

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