Journal of Statistical Physics

, Volume 15, Issue 5, pp 399–406 | Cite as

Rigorous results for general ising ferromagnets

  • Charles M. Newman
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Abstract

Several new results are given concerning the Lee-Yang theorem, the GHS inequality, and spin-1/2 approximations for general Ising ferromagnets, and the extension of these results to vector spin models is discussed.

Key words

Spin systems general Ising ferromagnets Lee-Yang theorem vector spin models 
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© Plenum Publishing Corporation 1976

Authors and Affiliations

  • Charles M. Newman
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.Departments of Physics and MathematicsTechnion-Israel Institute of TechnologyHaifaIsrael
  2. 2.NATO postdoctoral fellow on leave from the Department of MathematicsIndiana UniversityBloomington

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