The complex-fugacity Glauber spectral-radius conjecture

Let GG be a finite graph of maximum degree Δ\Delta, let PP be the Glauber transition matrix at complex fugacity ww, and let spr(P)\operatorname{spr}(P) denote its spectral radius on the quotient by constant functions. Complex-fugacity mixing conjecture. There exists a complex domain DΔD_\Delta containing

[0,1/(Δ1))[0,1/(\Delta-1))

such that spr(P)<1\operatorname{spr}(P)<1 for every graph GG of maximum degree Δ\Delta whenever wDΔw\in D_\Delta. There are separate equal- and unequal-fugacity versions; the conjecture would provide a uniform complex-domain criterion for nonvanishing of Z(w)Z(w), but it remains open in the source.

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Alan D. Sokal, “A Personal List of Unsolved Problems Concerning Lattice Gases and Antiferromagnetic Potts Models”, arXiv:cond-mat/0004231 (2000).

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