New insight on an old approach to the theory of critical phenomena (Q1567918)

In this interesting paper, the author constructs, a theory of critical phenomena based on the Ornstein-Zernike equation almost without additional postulates and hypotheses (at least, the number of these hypotheses is less than in the classical Widom-Kadanoff-Wilson theory). His reasoning is rather simple and logically clear. Even more important is that the new approach reveals a number of previously unknown details of critical phenomena (for instance, it states the law governing the transition from the critical to regular domains of a phase diagram, yields a more exact form of a distribution function, etc.) And, eventually, one touches the last remaining principal problem, which had not yet been solved in the theory of critical phenomena, namely, the problem of critical phenomena in Coulomb systems (electrolytes). In \textit{M. E. Fisher}'s survey [J. Phys. Cond. Matter 8, 9103 ff. (1996)] devoted to this problem, it was stated that none of the existing approaches gives satisfactory results. At the same time, the OZ equation can be easily generalized to the Coulomb systems; if it can be proved that this equation permits constructing a theory of critical phenomena in common liquids, then it may help in resolving the problem of critical phenomena in Coulomb systems.