Uniform LSI for the canonical ensemble on the 1d-lattice with strong, finite-range interaction

Abstract: We consider a one-dimensional lattice system of unbounded, real-valued spins with arbitrary strong, quadratic, finite-range interaction. We show that the canonical ensemble (ce) satisfies a uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI). The LSI constant is uniform in the boundary data, the external field and scales optimally in the system size. This extends a classical result of H.T. Yau from discrete to unbounded, real-valued spins. It also extends prior results of Landim, Panizo & Yau or Menz for unbounded, real-valued spins from absent- or weak- to strong-interaction. The proof of the LSI uses a combination of the two-scale approach and a block-decomposition technique introduced by Zegarlinski. Main ingredients are the strict convexity of the coarse-grained Hamiltonian, the equivalence of ensembles and the decay of correlations in the ce. Those ingredients were recently provided by the authors.