Metropolis Algorithm and equienergy sampling for two mean field spin systems

Federico Bassetti () and Fabrizio Leisen
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Federico Bassetti: Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Italy
Fabrizio Leisen: Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Italy

Economics and Quantitative Methods from Department of Economics, University of Insubria

Abstract: In this paper we study the Metropolis algorithm in connection with two mean–field spin systems, the so called mean–field Ising model and the Blume–Emery–Griffiths model. In both this examples the naive choice of proposal chain gives rise, for some parameters, to a slowly mixing Metropolis chain, that is a chain whose spectral gap decreases exponentially fast (in the dimension N of the problem). Here we show how a slight variant in the proposal chain can avoid this problem, keeping the mean computational cost similar to the cost of the usual Metropolis.

Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2007-04
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