Volume 52, Numbers 1-2, 503-507, DOI: 10.1007/BF01016432

Potts ferromagnet: Transformations and critical exponents in planar hierarchical lattices

Paulo R. Hauser and Evaldo M. F. Curado

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Abstract

We prove that the duality transformation for a Potts ferromagnet on two-rooted planar hierarchical lattices (HL) preserves the thermal eigenvalue. This leads to a relation between the correlation length critical exponents ugr of a HL and its corresponding dual lattice. Using hyperscaling, we show that their specific heat critical exponents agr coincide. For a smaller class of HL—namely of diamond and tress types—we prove that another transformation also preserves ugr and agr.

Key words  Critical exponents - hierarchical lattices - duality

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