Occurrence, Repetition and Matching of Patterns in the Low-temperature Ising Model

We continue our study of the exponential law for occurrences and returns of patterns in the context of Gibbsian random fields. For the low-temperature plus-phase of the Ising model, we prove exponential laws with error bounds for occurrence, return, waiting and matching times. Moreover we obtain a Poisson law for the number of occurrences of large cylindrical events and a Gumbel law for the maximal overlap between two independent copies. As a by-product, we derive precise fluctuation results for the logarithm of waiting and return times. The main technical tool we use, in order to control mixing, is disagreement percolation