A remark on the notion of robust phase transitions

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 1409-1416

  Van Enter, Aernout C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Potts models; Robust phase transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034339718     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018632132142     Document Type: Article

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