Forest expansion of two-body partition functions for sparse interaction graphs

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contents We study tree approximations to classical two-body partition functions on sparse and loopy graphs via the Brydges-Kennedy-Abdessalam-Rivasseau forest expansion. We show that for sparse graphs (with large cycles), the partition function above a certain temperature $T^*$ can be approximated by a graph polynomial expansion over forests of the interaction graph. Within this "forest phase", we show that the approximation can be written in terms of a reference tree $\mathcal T$ on the interaction graph, with corrections due to cycles. From this point of view, this implies that high-temperature models are easy to solve on sparse graphs, as one can evaluate the partition function using belief propagation. We also show that there exists a high- and low-temperature regime, in which $\mathcal T$ can be obtained via a maximal spanning tree algorithm on a (given) weighted graph. We study the algebra of these corrections and provide first- and second-order approximation to the tree Ansatz, and give explicit examples for the first-order approximation.
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Caravelli, Francesco
Combinatorics
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
We study tree approximations to classical two-body partition functions on sparse and loopy graphs via the Brydges-Kennedy-Abdessalam-Rivasseau forest expansion. We show that for sparse graphs (with large cycles), the partition function above a certain temperature $T^*$ can be approximated by a graph polynomial expansion over forests of the interaction graph. Within this "forest phase", we show that the approximation can be written in terms of a reference tree $\mathcal T$ on the interaction graph, with corrections due to cycles. From this point of view, this implies that high-temperature models are easy to solve on sparse graphs, as one can evaluate the partition function using belief propagation. We also show that there exists a high- and low-temperature regime, in which $\mathcal T$ can be obtained via a maximal spanning tree algorithm on a (given) weighted graph. We study the algebra of these corrections and provide first- and second-order approximation to the tree Ansatz, and give explicit examples for the first-order approximation.
title Forest expansion of two-body partition functions for sparse interaction graphs
topic Combinatorics
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00113