Pirogov–Sinai Theory for the Hard-Core Model Beyond Lattices
摘要
Pirogov–Sinai theory is a well-developed method for understanding the low-temperature phase diagram of statistical mechanics models on lattices. Motivated by physical and algorithmic questions beyond the setting of lattices, we develop a combinatorially flexible version of Pirogov–Sinai theory for the hard-core model of independent sets on bipartite graphs. Our results illustrate that the main conclusions of Pirogov–Sinai theory can be obtained in significantly greater generality than that of