Multiple critical behavior of probabilistic limit theorems in the neighborhood of a tricritical point

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Abstract: We derive probabilistic limit theorems that reveal the intricate structure of the phase transitions in a mean-field version of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model. These probabilistic limit theorems consist of scaling limits for the total spin and moderate deviation principles (MDPs) for the total spin. The model under study is defined by a probability distribution that depends on the parameters n, , and K, which represent, respectively, the number of spins, the inverse temperature, and the interaction strength. The intricate structure of the phase transitions is revealed by the existence of 18 scaling limits and 18 MDPs for the total spin. These limit results are obtained as converges along appropriate sequences to points belonging to various subsets of the phase diagram, which include a curve of second-order points and a tricritical point. The forms of the limiting densities in the scaling limits and of the rate functions in the MDPs reflect the influence of one or more sets that lie in neighborhoods of the critical points and the tricritical point. Of all the scaling limits, the structure of those near the tricritical point is by far the most complex, exhibiting new types of critical behavior when observed in a limit-theorem phase diagram in the space of the two parameters that parametrize the scaling limits.


The Blume-Emery-Griffiths model is an important lattice-spin model (BEG model) which applies to a broad class of physical systems, and here, one considers a mean-field (or molecular field) version of this approach, and more especially one investigates the critical behaviour of some corresponding probabilistic theorems which involve scaling limits and moderate deviation principles (MDP) for the total spin (in the BEG model). The key of this unified approach is the use of a (magic) function \(G_{\beta,K}\) of which the global minimum points coincide with the set of equilibrium macrostates of the BEG model. One so arrives at 18 scaling limits and 18 MDPs, what illustrates the intricacy of the system.



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