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Search DetailsSakai Akira
| Faculty of Science Mathematics Mathematics | Professor |
| Research Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity | Professor |
Researcher basic information
■ Degree■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
- 50506996
Research Keyword
- probability theory
- statistical mechanics
- mathematical physics
- phase transition
- critical behavior
- lace expansion
- Ising model
- φ^4 model
- contact process
- percolation
- lattice trees
- lattice animals
- self-avoiding walk
- random walk
- Natural Science, Applied mathematics and statistics
- Natural Science, Basic mathematics
- Natural Science, Mathematical physics and fundamental theory of condensed matter physics
- Natural Science, Mathematical analysis
- Bachelor's degree program, School of Science
- Master's degree program, Graduate School of Science
- Doctoral (PhD) degree program, Graduate School of Science
Career
■ CareerCareer
- Feb. 2020 - Present
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics, Professor - Apr. 2011 - Jan. 2020
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics, Associate professor - Mar. 2008 - Mar. 2011
Hokkaido University, Creative Institution SOUSEI, Tenure-track assistant professor - Apr. 2006 - Feb. 2008
University of Bath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lecturer - Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2006
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Postdoctoral fellow - Jan. 2003 - Mar. 2004
Eurandom, Postdoctoral fellow - Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2002
University of British Columbia, Department of Mathematics, Postdoctoral fellow
- Apr. 1996 - Dec. 2000, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Apr. 1994 - Mar. 1996, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Apr. 1990 - Mar. 1994, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Mar. 2020 - Present
Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry, Associate editor - Aug. 2020 - Oct. 2023
Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, Associate editor - Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2022
Mathematical Society of Japan, Statistics and Probability Section Steering Committee, Society - Sep. 2015 - Aug. 2019
Bernoulli Society, Councilor, Society
Research activity information
■ Awards- Mar. 2013, 北海道大学, The Hokkaido University President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013
坂井哲 - Mar. 2012, 北海道大学, The Hokkaido University President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012
坂井哲
- Mean-field behavior of the quantum Ising susceptibility and a new lace expansion for the classical Ising model
Yoshinori Kamijima; Akira Sakai
Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry, 28, 4, 1, 43, Sep. 2025, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Corresponding author]
English, Scientific journal, 43702500 - Work of Hugo Duminil-Copin
Akira Sakai
Sugaku, 76, 1, 48, 60, Jan. 2024, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
Japanese, 43702500 - Mathematical Aspects of the Digital Annealer’s Simulated Annealing Algorithm
Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura; Noe Kawamoto; Eitaro Noda; Akira Sakai
Journal of Statistical Physics, 190, 12, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 24 Nov. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal, 13064914 - Spread-out limit of the critical points for lattice trees and lattice animals in dimensions d>8
Noe Kawamoto; Akira Sakai
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 33, 2, 238, 269, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 20 Nov. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal, Abstract
A spread-out lattice animal is a finite connected set of edges in ${{x,y\}\subset \mathbb{Z}^d\;:\;0\lt \|x-y\|\le L\}$. A lattice tree is a lattice animal with no loops. The best estimate on the critical point $p_{\textrm{c } }$ so far was achieved by Penrose (J. Stat. Phys. 77, 3–15, 1994) : $p_{\textrm{c } }=1/e+O(L^{-2d/7}\log L)$ for both models for all $d\ge 1$. In this paper, we show that $p_{\textrm{c } }=1/e+CL^{-d}+O(L^{-d-1})$ for all $d\gt 8$, where the model-dependent constant $C$ has the random-walk representation\begin{align*} C_{\textrm{LT } }=\sum _{n=2}^\infty \frac{n+1},{2e}U^{*n}(o),&& C_{\textrm{LA } }=C_{\textrm{LT } }-\frac 1{2e^2}\sum _{n=3}^\infty U^{*n}(o), \end{align*}where $U^{*n}$ is the $n$-fold convolution of the uniform distribution on the $d$-dimensional ball $\{x\in{\mathbb R}^d\;: \|x\|\le 1\}$. The proof is based on a novel use of the lace expansion for the 2-point function and detailed analysis of the 1-point function at a certain value of $p$ that is designed to make the analysis extremely simple., 43702500 - Mixing Time and Simulated Annealing for the Stochastic Cellular Automata
Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura; Satoshi Handa; Katsuhiro Kamakura; Yoshinori Kamijima; Kazushi Kawamura; Akira Sakai
Journal of Statistical Physics, 190, 4, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 22 Mar. 2023, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 13064914 - Stochastic optimization: Glauber dynamics versus stochastic cellular automata
Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura; Yoshinori Kamijima; Kazushi Kawamura; Akira Sakai
Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 36, 1, 9, 16, The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Jan. 2023, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Last author]
English, Scientific journal, 13064914 - Percolation 2020
Akira Sakai
Sugaku, 74, 3, 253, 279, Jul. 2022, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
Japanese, Scientific journal, 12050675 - Correct Bounds on the Ising Lace-Expansion Coefficients
Akira Sakai
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 392, 3, 783, 823, Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}, Jun. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 12050675 - Stochastic optimization via parallel dynamics: rigorous results and simulations
Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura; Yoshinori Kamijima; Kazushi Kawamura; Akira Sakai
Proceedings of the ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, 2022, 65, 71, The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 31 Mar. 2022, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal, 13064914 - Stability of energy landscape for Ising models
Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura; Akira Sakai; Hisayoshi Toyokawa; Yuki Ueda
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 583, 126208, 126208, Elsevier {BV}, Dec. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 13064914 - STATICA: A 512-Spin 0.25M-Weight Annealing Processor With an All-Spin-Updates-at-Once Architecture for Combinatorial Optimization With Complete Spin–Spin Interactions
Kasho Yamamoto; Kazushi Kawamura; Kota Ando; Normann Mertig; Takashi Takemoto; Masanao Yamaoka; Hiroshi Teramoto; Akira Sakai; Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki; Masato Motomura
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 56, 1, 165, 178, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jan. 2021, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 13064914 - A Survey on the Lace Expansion for the Nearest-neighbor Models on the BCC Lattice
Satoshi Handa; Yoshinori Kamijima; Akira Sakai
Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 24, 3, 01 Jun. 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal, 12050674 - Crossover phenomena in the critical behavior for long-range models with power-law couplings
Akira Sakai
RIMS Kokyuroku Bessatsu, B79, 51, 62, Apr. 2020, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited], [Domestic magazines]
English, Scientific journal, 12050675 - 7.3 STATICA: A 512-Spin 0.25M-Weight Full-Digital Annealing Processor with a Near-Memory All-Spin-Updates-at-Once Architecture for Combinatorial Optimization with Complete Spin-Spin Interactions.
Kasho Yamamoto; Kota Ando; Normann Mertig; Takashi Takemoto; Masanao Yamaoka; Hiroshi Teramoto; Akira Sakai; Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki; Masato Motomura
2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference(ISSCC), 138, 140, IEEE, 2020, [Peer-reviewed]
International conference proceedings, 13064914 - Critical Two-Point Function for Long-Range Models with Power-Law Couplings: The Marginal Case for d≥dc
Akira Sakai
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 372, 2, 543, 572, Dec. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 12050675 - Mean-Field Bound on the 1-Arm Exponent for Ising Ferromagnets in High Dimensions
Satoshi Handa; Markus Heydenreich; Akira Sakai
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 183, 198, Springer Singapore, 18 Oct. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
In book, 12050674 - Spatial moments for high-dimensional critical contact process, oriented percolation and lattice trees
Akira Sakai; Gordon Slade
Electronic Journal of Probability, 24, none, 01 Jan. 2019, [Peer-reviewed]
Scientific journal, 12050675 - Hyperscaling for Oriented Percolation in 1+1 Space-Time Dimensions
Akira Sakai
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 171, 3, 462, 469, May 2018, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 12050674 - Co-ordinated Regulations of mRNA Synthesis and Decay during Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis Cells
Toshihiro Arae; Shiori Isai; Akira Sakai; Katsuhiko Mineta; Masami Yokota Hirai; Yuya Suzuki; Shigehiko Kanaya; Junji Yamaguchi; Satoshi Naito; Yukako Chiba
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, 58, 6, 1090, 1102, Jun. 2017, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - The Quenched Critical Point for Self-Avoiding Walk on Random Conductors
Yuki Chino; Akira Sakai
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 163, 4, 754, 764, May 2016, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 12050674 - Application of the Lace Expansion to the φ4 Model
Akira Sakai
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 336, 2, 619, 648, Jun. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 10270212 - CRITICAL TWO-POINT FUNCTIONS FOR LONG-RANGE STATISTICAL-MECHANICAL MODELS IN HIGH DIMENSIONS
Lung-Chi Chen; Akira Sakai
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY, 43, 2, 639, 681, Mar. 2015, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 10270212 - ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF THE GYRATION RADIUS FOR LONG-RANGE SELF-AVOIDING WALK AND LONG-RANGE ORIENTED PERCOLATION
Lung-Chi Chen; Akira Sakai
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY, 39, 2, 507, 548, Mar. 2011, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 10270213 - Large-time asymptotics of the gyration radius for long-range statistical-mechanical models
Akira Sakai
RIMS Kokyuroku Bessatsu, B21, 53, 61, Kyoto University, Dec. 2010
English, Symposium, 10270213 - Convergence of the critical finite-range contact process to super-Brownian motion above the upper critical dimension: The higher-point functions
Remco van der Hofstad; Akira Sakai
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY, 15, 801, 894, Jun. 2010, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 10270213 - Critical behavior and the limit distribution for long-range oriented percolation. II: Spatial correlation
Lung-Chi Chen; Akira Sakai
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS, 145, 3-4, 435, 458, Nov. 2009, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal, 10270213 - Mean-field behavior for long- and finite range Ising model, percolation and self-avoiding walk
Markus Heydenreich; Remco van der Hofstad; Akira Sakai
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 132, 6, 1001, 1049, Sep. 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Critical behavior and the limit distribution for long-range oriented percolation. I
Lung-Chi Chen; Akira Sakai
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS, 142, 1-2, 151, 188, Sep. 2008, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Applications of the Lace Expansion to Statistical-Mechanical Models
Akira Sakai
Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models, 3, 123, 147, Oxford University Press, 24 Jul. 2008, [Peer-reviewed], [Invited]
English, In book, Synergetics is a common feature in interesting statistical-mechanical problems. One of the most important examples of synergetics is the emergence of a second-order phase transition and critical behaviour. It is rich and still far from fully understood. The reason why it is so difficult is due to the increase to infinity of the number of strongly correlated variables in the vicinity of the critical point. For example, the Ising model, which is a model for magnets, exhibits critical behaviour as the temperature comes closer to its critical value; the closer the temperature is to criticality, the more spin variables cooperate with each other to attain the global magnetization. In this regime, neither standard probability theory for independent random variables nor naive perturbation techniques work. The lace expansion, which is the topic of this article, is currently one of the few approaches to rigorous investigation of critical behaviour for various statistical-mechanical models. The chapter summarizes some of the most intriguing lace-expansion results for self-avoiding walk (SAW), percolation, and the Ising model.Analysis and stochastics of growth processes and interface models - Senile reinforced random walks
M. Holmes; A. Sakai
STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, 117, 10, 1519, 1539, Oct. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Diagrammatic bounds on the lace-expansion coefficients for oriented percolation
Akira Sakai
21 Aug. 2007
English, Research society, We provide a complete proof of the diagrammatic bounds on the lace-expansion coefficients for oriented percolation, which are used in [arXiv:math/0703455 ] to investigate critical behavior for long-range oriented percolation above 2\min{\alpha,2} spatial dimensions. - Lace expansion for the Ising model
Akira Sakai
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 272, 2, 283, 344, Jun. 2007, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Critical points for spread-out self-avoiding walk, percolation and the contact process above the upper critical dimensions
R van der Hofstad; A Sakai
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS, 132, 3, 438, 470, Jul. 2005, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Mean-field behavior for the survival probability and the percolation point-to-surface connectivity
Akira Sakai
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 117, 1-2, 111, 130, Oct. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Gaussian scaling for the critical spread-out contact process above the upper critical dimension
R van der Hofstad; A Sakai
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY, 9, 710, 769, Oct. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - High-dimensional graphical networks of self-avoiding walks
M Holmes; AA Jarai; A Sakai; G Slade
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS-JOURNAL CANADIEN DE MATHEMATIQUES, 56, 1, 77, 114, Feb. 2004, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Hyperscaling inequalities for the contact process and oriented percolation
Akira Sakai
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 106, 1-2, 201, 211, Jan. 2002, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal - Mean-field critical behavior for the contact process
Akira Sakai
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS, 104, 1-2, 111, 143, Jul. 2001, [Peer-reviewed]
English, Scientific journal
- Stability of the phase transition and critical behavior of the Ising model against quantum perturbation—確率論シンポジウム
上島 芳倫; 坂井 哲, 数理解析研究所講究録, 2246, 5, 15, Apr. 2023
京都大学数理解析研究所, Japanese - 体心立方格子上の最近接モデルに対するレース展開 (確率論シンポジウム)
上島 芳倫; 坂井 哲; 半田 悟, 数理解析研究所講究録, 2030, 135, 142, May 2017
京都大学数理解析研究所, Japanese - Application of the lace expansion to the $\varphi^4$ model (Probability Symposium)
Sakai Akira, RIMS Kokyuroku, 1855, 80, 81, Oct. 2013
Kyoto University, English
- Sojourns in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics - I
Satoshi Handa; Markus Heydenreich; Akira Sakai, Mean-field bound on the 1-arm exponent for Ising ferromagnets in high dimensions
Springer Singapore, 2019, 9789811502941, 183-198, English, Scholarly book, 12050674, [Contributor] - Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models
Akira Sakai, Applications of the lace expansion to statistical-mechanical models
Oxford University Press, Jul. 2008, 9780199239252, 352, 123-147, English, Scholarly book, [Contributor]
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■ Research Themes
- Lace expansion for critical behavior in quantum perturbations and random media and for constructive quantum field theory
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Apr. 2026 - Mar. 2031
Akira Sakai; Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura; Yoshinori Kamijima
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, 26K00607 - A comprehensive study on the mathematical aspects of metallic ferromagnetism
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2027
宮尾 忠宏; 坂井 哲; 桂 法称; 松澤 泰道; 松井 卓
令和6年度の主な研究成果は以下の通りです:
金属強磁性の厳密解析:金属強磁性の厳密な理解に向けて鍵となるPirogov-Sinai理論を、電子・格子相互作用系に対して拡張した。格子振動を記述する作用素が非有界であるため、これらの系の解析は数学的に高度な技術を要する。本研究では、場の量子論の手法を応用することでこの困難を克服した。また、本研究からはいくつかの興味深い派生問題も生じており、今後さらに関連課題を掘り下げていく予定である。
一次元フェルミオン系における電荷密度波(CDW)の厳密解析:一般に、一次元系において短距離相互作用が支配的な場合、Mermin-Wagnerの定理により長距離秩序は現れないことが知られている。本研究では、長距離相互作用を持つモデルを対象とし、鏡映正値性を用いることで、基底状態における長距離秩序の存在を厳密に証明した。さらに、このメカニズムを作用素環論におけるvon Neumann環の標準形の枠組みで整理し、理論的理解を深めた。無限系における厳密な数学的記述が今後の課題であり、引き続き研究を進める予定である。
整数量子ホール効果に関する国際共同研究:チュービンゲン大学の研究グループと協力し、整数量子ホール効果に関する研究を行った。本研究は金属強磁性とは異なるテーマであるが、いずれも無限フェルミオン系の解析を必要とする点で数学的に相乗効果をもたらしている。これまでの数学的理論は実験的現実から乖離していたが、我々のグループはより実際的な設定において、ホール係数が量子化されることを厳密に証明した。本成果は現在、当該分野のトップジャーナルに投稿中である。
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 23K25783 - Lace-expansion approach towards phase transitions, critical phenomena and constructive field theory
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
01 Apr. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2026
坂井 哲
本研究は三つの課題から成る.課題(i)「量子摂動に対するIsing模型の相転移・臨界現象の安定性」については,前年度までの方針(離散時間レース展開の連続極限)から大きく転換し,連続時間のまま「ランダムパリティ表現」を駆使してレース展開を導出することになった.この試みが功を奏し,ついにレース展開の大枠が証明できた.そのように導出した展開を量子効果ゼロとしたものは,古典Ising模型に対するレース展開の全く新しい導出になっているため,このことを纏めた論文を上島芳倫(東洋大,以下敬称略)と完成.ジャーナルのIsing模型生誕100年記念号に投稿済みである.
課題(ii)「定常なランダム媒質中の自己回避歩行の高次元臨界現象」については,媒質を一つ固定した場合(quenched)の臨界点と,媒質について平均化した場合(annealed)の臨界点が一致するのかという問題が出発点となる.共同研究者の千野由喜(台湾NYCU),Bruno Hideki Fukushima-Kimura(北大ISP),北川遊(北大M2)と毎週ミーティングを開き,二つに臨界点が一致するための十分条件を特定し,それが独立同分布の媒質の場合に成り立つのか精査した.このことや,その発展について,ソウル大学のコロキウムで講演した.
課題(iii)については,共同研究者の河本野恵(台湾NCTS)をRIMS研究集会(笹本智弘・東京科学大,宮尾忠弘・北大との共催)に招き,滞在期間中に直接打合せを行った.依然として,連続極限の非ガウス性をどう表現するか,回転対称性をどのように示すかが未解決であり,今後も検討していく予定.
以上に加えて,組合せ最適化問題に対するマルコフ連鎖モンテカルロ法の幾つかのアルゴリズムを比較した研究結果について,台湾NTUでの研究集会で講演した.また,国際研究集会を3件主催した.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, 23K03143 - Optimization problems and their solutions with safe and secure quality validation based on mathematics
Strategic Basic Research Programs CREST
Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2024
Akira Sakai
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding - Rigorous analysis for high-dimensional critical behavior and crossover of various mathematical models
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2022
Akira Sakai
(1) We prove that bond percolation on the d-dimensional body-centered cubic lattice exhibits mean-field behavior as soon as d≧9. Although it is still away from the expected bound d≧7,it is superior to the best-ever bound d≧11 for bond percolation on the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice, proven by Fitzner and van der Hofstad (2017).
(2) We prove that sufficiently spread-out long-range models of self-avoiding walk, percolation and the Ising model, which are defined by power-law decaying 2-body interactions (characterized by an exponent a), exhibit mean-field behavior as soon as d is bigger than the model-dependent upper-critical dimension dc when a≠2, and as soon as d≧dc when a=2. This solves a conjecture in physics (2014).
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 18K03406 - On yet-open questions about Ising ferromagnets
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018
Akira Sakai
Consider the 1-spin expectation at the center of the d-dimensional ball of radius r under the plus-boundary condition. It has been known that it exhibits a phase transition and decays to zero as r diverges at the critical temperature. In particular, it is known to decay slower than r to the power 1-d/2 above the upper-critical dimension 4, due to a hyperscaling inequality.
By using the random-current representation, a stochastic-geometric representation for the Ising model, Handa, Heydenreich and I have proven a sharper second-moment estimate and concluded that the critical 1-spin expectation decays no faster than 1/r above 4 dimensions, meaning the 1-arm exponent is not bigger than the long-expected mean-field value 1 for d>4. The results are summarized in a paper, which was accepted for publication in a festschrift for Charles Newman's 70th birthday.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 15K13440 - Analysis of critical behavior for spin systems using stochastic-geometrical representations
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015
Akira Sakai
The (ferromagnatic) Ising model and the φ4 model are known to exhibit phase transition and critical behavior. In 2007, Sakai used a stochastic-geometrical representation, known as the random-current representation, to develop the lace expansion for the Ising model. Extending the use of this stochastic-geometrical representation, we applied the lace expansion to the φ4 model and obtained an asymptotic expression of the critical two-point function in high dimensions. We also established the method of analyzing critical behavior for the models defined by power-law decaying pair potentials, and proved that the critical two-point function in high dimensions is asymptotically Newtonian or Riesz, depending on the value of the power exponent of the pair potentials.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Hokkaido University, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 24540106 - Advancement of the lace expansion and its applications
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(若手研究(B))
Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2012
Akira SAKAI
The lace expansion has been one of the few mathematically rigorous approaches to investigate critical behavior in high dimensions. We have extended this methodology to obtain a universal sharp asymptotic expression of the 2-point functions for long-range self-avoiding walk and long-range oriented percolation which are defined by power-law decaying pair potentials. We have also investigated the finite-range(but sufficiently spread-out) critical contact process and proved that the n-point function under the Brownian scaling converges to the(n-1)-point function for the canonical measure of super-Brownian motion.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 若手研究(B), 北海道大学, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 21740059
- 情報処理装置および情報処理方法
Patent right, メティック ノーマン; 竹本 享史; 高前田 伸也; 山本 佳生; 本村 真人; 坂井 哲; 寺本 央, 株式会社日立製作所, 国立大学法人北海道大学
特願2019-162856, 06 Sep. 2019
特開2021-043508, 18 Mar. 2021
特許第7341804号
202303007771889417 - 情報処理装置および情報処理方法
Patent right, メティック ノーマン; 竹本 享史; 高前田 伸也; 山本 佳生; 本村 真人; 坂井 哲; 寺本 央, 株式会社日立製作所, 国立大学法人北海道大学
特願2019-162856, 06 Sep. 2019
特開2021-043508, 18 Mar. 2021
202103018796210114
