Amenability and Phase Transition in the Ising Model

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 549-559

  Jonasson, Johan ^a   Steif, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amenability; Cayley graphs; Ising model; Markov operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043138913     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021690414168     Document Type: Article

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