Limit Shapes for Gibbs Partitions of Sets

• Published in: Journal of statistical physics Vol. 183; no. 2
• Main Authors: Fatkullin, Ibrahim, Xue, Jianfei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-05-2021; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Asymptotic properties; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Physical Chemistry; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Physics; Random variables; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems; Step functions; Sums; Theoretical; Partition; Young diagram; Limit shape; Gibbs ensemble
• ISSN: 0022-4715; 1572-9613
• DOI: 10.1007/s10955-021-02756-8

This study extends a prior investigation of limit shapes for grand canonical Gibbs ensembles of partitions of integers, which was based on analysis of sums of geometric random variables. Here we compute limit shapes for partitions of sets, which lead to the sums of Poisson random variables. Under mild monotonicity assumptions on the energy function, we derive all possible limit shapes arising from different asymptotic behaviors of the energy, and also compute local limit shape profiles for cases in which the limit shape is a step function.