Phase transitions on fractal lattices with long-range interactions (Q1114213)

A fractal lattice F is defined here to comprise all points of the form \(a+ma'+m^ 2a''+...+m^ qa^{(q)}\), where q is a nonnegative integer and \(a,a',...,a^{(q)}\in A\), where A is a finite set of points in some Euclidean space. Provided m is not too small (in particular, m must be at least 2), the dimension of F is shown to be \(D=\log n/\log m\), where n is the number of points in A. It is shown further that an Ising model on F, with a ferromagnetic pair interaction \(r^{-\alpha}\) between spins separated by a distance r, has a phase transition if \(D<\alpha <2D\). On the other hand, for \(\alpha >2D\), provided a certain condition which rules out periodic lattices is satisfied, there can be no finite- temperature transition leading to spontaneous magnetization.