Fuzzy transformations and extremality of Gibbs measures for the Potts model on a Cayley tree

Abstract

We continue our study of the full set of translation-invariant splitting Gibbs measures (TISGMs, translation-invariant tree-indexed Markov chains) for the $q$-state Potts model on a Cayley tree. In our previous work \cite{KRK} we gave a full description of the TISGMs, and showed in particular that at sufficiently low temperatures their number is $2^q-1$. In this paper we find some regions for the temperature parameter ensuring that a given TISGM is (non-)extreme in the set of all Gibbs measures. In particular we show the existence of a temperature interval for which there are at least $2^{q-1}+q$ extremal TISGMs. For the Cayley tree of order two we give explicit formulae and some numerical values.

44 pages. To appear in Random Structures and Algorithms

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• Description of the translation-invariant splitting Gibbs measures for the Potts model on a Cayley tree

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