Equilibrium Biphasicity and Non-Binary Pathwise Confinement in Stochastic Ising Models

Abstract

For the low-temperature two-dimensional Ising model, the two pure Gibbs phases exhaust the extremal equilibrium states, but not the pathwise absorbing structure of the Glauber dynamics. Let \[ P^\pm=\{σ:M_n(σ)\to \pm m_β\},\qquad R=Ω\setminus(P^+\cup P^-). \] We show that \(R\) is null under both pure phases but contains a dense pathwise confined subset. More precisely, we construct a dense family of initial configurations whose trajectories are confined to the centered sector \[ C_0=\{σ:M_n(σ)\to0\}\subset R. \] Nevertheless, the corresponding Cesaro averages converge to \(\frac12(μ^++μ^-)\). Thus the pathwise absorbing geometry is richer than the Gibbs-phase classification, without creating a third Gibbs phase.

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