We consider one-dimensional long-range spin models (usually called Dyson models), consisting of Ising ferromagnets with slowly decaying long-range pair potentials of the form (formula presented), mainly focusing on the range of slow decays (formula presented). We describe two recent results, one about renormalization and one about the effect of external fields at low temperature. The first result states that a decimated long-range Gibbs measure in one dimension becomes non-Gibbsian, in the same vein as comparable results in higher dimensions for short-range models. The second result addresses the behaviour of such models under inhomogeneous fields, in particular external fields which decay to zero polynomially as (formula presented). We study how the critical decay power of the field, (formula presented), for which the phase transition persists and the decay power (formula presented) of the Dyson model compare, extending recent results for short-range models on lattices and on trees. We also briefly point out some analogies between these results.

We consider the two-dimensional Ising model with long-range pair interactions of the form (Formula presented.) with (Formula presented.), mostly when (Formula presented.). We show that Dobrushin states (i.e. extremal non-translation-invariant Gibbs states selected by mixed ± boundary conditions) do not exist. We discuss possible extensions of this result in the direction of the Aizenman–Higuchi theorem, or concerning fluctuations of interfaces. We also mention the existence of rigid interfaces in two long-range anisotropic contexts.