A Characterization of First Order Phase Transitions for Superstable Interactions in Classical Statistical Mechanics (Extended Version)
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چکیده
We give bounds on finite volume expectations for a set of boundary conditions containing the support of any tempered Gibbs state and prove a theorem connecting the behavior of Gibbs states to the differentiability of the pressure for continuum statistical mechanical systems with long range superstable potentials. Convergence of grandcanonical Gibbs states is also studied. This is an extended version of a paper appearing in the Journal of Statistical Physics, v. 71, 1043 (1993).
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