Glauber dynamics and coupling-from-the-past for Gaussian fields

Corentin Faipeur

Published 2024-10-24Version 1

In this paper, we study a centered Gaussian field on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ defined by the following: the conditional law of the field at any site $i \in \mathbb{Z}^d$ is Gaussian of mean $\epsilon$ times the mean of the neighbours, and of variance 1. We show that when $\epsilon$ is small enough, this model can be written as a factor of an i.i.d. process, and that it is exponentially close to a finitely dependent model. Furthermore, if the field is conditioned to take values in a compact, we show that the factor can be realised with exponential tails.