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It is well-known that any Lennard–Jones type potential energy must have a periodic ground state given by a triangular lattice in dimension 2. In this paper, we describe a computer-assisted method that rigorously shows such global minimality result among 2-dimensional lattices once the exponents of the potential have been fixed. The method is applied to the widely used classical (12 , 6) Lennard–Jones potential, which is the main result of this work. Furthermore, a new bound on the inverse density (i.e. the co-volume) for which the triangular lattice is minimal is derived, improving those found in (Bétermin and Zhang 2015 Commun. Contemp. Math. 17 1450049) and (Bétermin 2016 SIAM J. Math. Anal. 48 3236–3269). The same results are also shown to hold for other exponents as additional examples and a new conjecture implying the global optimality of a triangular lattice for any parameters is stated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Godrčche, in Comment on 'Fluctuation dominated phase ordering at a mixed order transition' [2021 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54 038001], has commented on our recent paper Fluctuation dominated phase ordering at a mixed order transition (2019 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52 254001). This comment concerns the prefactor of the cusp-like small-argument singularity of the scaled spin-spin correlation function at criticality. We remark that the approach used in our paper is adequate for computing the cusp exponent, which is what is really needed to establish fluctuation-dominated phase ordering. Computing the precise value of the prefactor of the cusp singularity is irrelevant for this purpose, or for the physics behind the relation between the mixed order phase transition and the fluctuation-dominated phase ordering—the understanding of which was the main purpose of our paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]