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Locality properties for discrete and continuum Widom--Rowlinson models in random environments

Benedikt Jahnel , Christof K\"ulske , Alexander Zass This is my paper

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In non-percolating quenched random environments the symmetric continuum Widom-Rowlinson model admits environment-driven discontinuities that block quasilocal Papangelou intensity representations.

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The Widom-Rowlinson model places two colors of hard balls that strongly repel each other when colors differ. A random environment adds location-dependent preferences for which color attaches where. The authors ask whether the combined infinite-volume configuration of environment plus particles can be described by local conditional probabilities called Papangelou intensities. They construct an explicit case, using a symmetric model on a non-percolating environment, where the environment creates sudden jumps that cannot be captured by any continuous local intensity. The same kind of jump was already known for a simpler lattice model called the diluted Ising model; the new observation is that it survives in continuous space.

Core claim

In the case of the symmetric Widom-Rowlinson model on a non-percolating environment, we can explicitly construct a discontinuity coming from the environment.

Load-bearing premise

The environment is quenched, symmetric, and non-percolating; this specific choice is what permits the explicit construction of an environment-induced discontinuity in the Papangelou intensities (abstract, final paragraph).

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Configu￾ration of the WRM on the diluted lattice. Black vertices repre￾sent occupation in the underlying Bernoulli site percolation. Blue (resp. green, red) disks represent the + (resp. 0,−) spins in the WRM. As first noted in [EMSS00], for the case of the Ising model defined on the clusters of a Bernoulli lattice field, the model K seems very local at a first glance. However, this is not the case, when lo… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: A realiza￾tion of the discrete WRM on clusters of the Poisson–Gilbert graph, represented by gray edges. In blue (resp. green, red) the +1 (resp. 0, −1) the spins of the WRM. ρ: (R d×M)×Ω → [0, ∞) that will serve as analogues for the specifications above and call them Papangelou intensities. We write R dxf(x) = R dx P σx∈M f((x, σx)) = R dx P σx∈M f(x). Definition 3.1 (GNZ equations). A marked point process… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: A realization of a WRM on the clusters of a PBM, represented in gray. In blue (resp. red) the +1 (resp. −1) marks of the WRM. According to (10), adding the marked point η ∋ x = (x, ¯ σ¯BM(¯x) ) given by the dark-gray environment point and the highlighted WR points is possible only if there are no WR points of η in the overlap BM(¯x) ∩ BM(¯η). We denote by W(ρ) the set of good configurations for ρ, while el… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: A realization of a WRM on the truncated half-lattices Λ n ±. Black ver￾tices represent occupation in the under￾lying Bernoulli site percolation. Blue (resp. green, red) disks represent the + (resp. 0,−) spins in the WRM. in order to show that any boundary condition ηo c with ζo c = Λ is a discontinuity point of ηo c 7→ K(σo = 1|η [1] o c ), it suffices to show that lim inf n↑∞ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/ful… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: A realiza￾tion of a WRM on the (rescaled) trun￾cated half-lattices for large p. In black the vertices of the un￾derlying Gilbert graph. Blue (resp. green, red) disks represent the + (resp. 0,−) spins in the WRM. The magni￾fied areas represent the thickening procedure of Step 2, for k = 9. (effective) p as in Step 1. Reproducing Steps 2-5 in the proof of Theorem 2.3, but now using the effective spin ˆσxˆ of… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: A realization of a WRM on the truncated half-lattices Λ a,ε,n ± (in grey). clusters of a PBM, represented in gray. In blue (resp. red) the +1 (resp. −1) marks of the WRM. we can estimate |ZBM(¯η ′ y¯ ) − ZBM(¯ηy¯) | = | Z BM(¯η ′ y¯ ) Π ±(d¯σ ′ )1{σ¯ ′ is feas.} − Z BM(¯ηy¯) Π ±(d¯σ)1{σ¯ is feas.}| ≤ (1 − e −λ±|BM(¯η ′ y¯ )\BM(¯ηy¯)| ) + (1 − e −λ±|BM(¯ηy¯)\BM(¯η ′ y¯ )| ) + |e −λ±|BM(¯ηy¯)\BM(¯η ′ y¯ )| −… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Colored points on the cluster of a PBM (in gray). On the left, a realization of Π where overlapping regions have too many points; on the right a realization of Π(1). Note the different intensities in the overlap regions. 6.2. An alternative Papangelou intensity. Now, we incorporate the WRM constraint, see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: A realization of K(1): a WRM on the clusters of a PBM, represented in gray. The blue (+1) and red (−1) marks are subject to the WR con￾straint. Proof of Proposition 6.2. Using the Slivnyak–Mecke theorem for the iid marked PPP Π, we can calculate for all non-negative measurable test functions f, Z dx Z K(dη)ρ(x, η)f(x, η ∪ {x}) = Z dx Z Π(dη)χ(η)¯µ(η)ρ(x, η)f(x, η ∪ {x}) = β Z dx Z Π(dη)χ(η ∪ {x})¯µ(η ∪ {x}… view at source ↗
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We consider the Widom--Rowlinson model in which hard balls of two possible colors are constrained to a hard-core repulsion between particles of different colors, in quenched random environments. These random environments model spatially dependent preferences for the attachment of balls. We investigate the possibility to represent the joint process of environment and infinite-volume Widom--Rowlinson measure in terms of continuous (quasilocal) Papangelou intensities. We show that this is not always possible: In the case of the symmetric Widom-Rowlinson model on a non-percolating environment, we can explicitly construct a discontinuity coming from the environment. This is a new phenomenon for systems of continuous particles, but it can be understood as a continuous-space echo of a simpler non-locality phenomenon known to appear for the diluted Ising model (Griffiths singularity random field) on the lattice, as we explain in the course of the proof.

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Summary. The manuscript examines locality properties of the Widom-Rowlinson model (hard balls of two colors with inter-color hard-core repulsion) placed in quenched random environments that encode spatially varying attachment preferences. The central claim is that the joint environment-plus-measure process cannot always be represented via continuous quasilocal Papangelou intensities; specifically, an explicit construction is given showing an environment-induced discontinuity for the symmetric model on a non-percolating environment. This is presented as a continuum-space analogue of the Griffiths singularity for the diluted Ising model on the lattice.

Significance. If the explicit construction is correct, the result is significant because it supplies a concrete, model-specific example of non-locality arising purely from environmental disorder in a continuum particle system, thereby extending a known lattice phenomenon to continuous space. The strength of the work lies in the provision of an explicit construction rather than an existence argument, which makes the discontinuity in the Papangelou intensities directly verifiable under the stated quenched, symmetric, non-percolating conditions.

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  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the result for the symmetric Widom-Rowlinson model but does not specify the ambient dimension or the precise form of the non-percolating environment; adding one sentence on these points would improve readability for readers outside the immediate subfield.
  2. Notation for the Papangelou intensities (e.g., the dependence on the environment configuration) is introduced gradually; a short preliminary subsection collecting the relevant definitions would aid navigation.

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The central result is an explicit construction of an environment-induced discontinuity in Papangelou intensities for the symmetric Widom-Rowlinson model under quenched non-percolating conditions. This is presented as a direct mathematical construction analogous to the known lattice Griffiths singularity, with the proof explaining the reduction rather than relying on fitted parameters, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations that reduce the claim to its inputs. The derivation remains self-contained against external benchmarks and does not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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