Abstract
We point out that the high-qPotts model on a regular lattice at its transition temperature provides an example of a nonrobust—in the sense recently proposed by Pemantle and Steif—phase transition.
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van Enter, A.C.D. A Remark on the Notion of Robust Phase Transitions. Journal of Statistical Physics 98, 1409–1416 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018632132142
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