Typical periodic optimization and freezing phase transition: Dini potentials and beyond

Abstract

We investigate the Typical Periodic Optimization (TPO) Conjecture and freezing phase transitions for Dini potentials and beyond. We show that the TPO conjecture fails already at Dini regularity. We identify a sharp regularity threshold for freezing phase transitions, which we call weak log-log Dini. Both results reveal the stability of aperiodic ground states. Moreover, we identify Dini regularity as the sharp threshold for a quantitatitve analog of the freezing phase transition.