q-plane zeros of the Potts partition function on diamond hierarchical graphs

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Abstract: We report exact results concerning the zeros of the partition function of the Potts model in the complex q plane, as a function of a temperature-like Boltzmann variable v, for the m'th iterate graphs Dm of the Diamond Hierarchical Lattice (DHL), including the limit moinfty. In this limit we denote the continuous accumulation locus of zeros in the q planes at fixed v=v0 as mathcalBq(v0). We apply theorems from complex dynamics to establish properties of mathcalBq(v0). For v=1 (the zero-temperature Potts antiferromagnet, or equivalently, chromatic polynomial), we prove that mathcalBq(1) crosses the real-q axis at (i) a minimal point q=0, (ii) a maximal point q=3 (iii) q=32/27, (iv) a cubic root that we give, with the value q=q1=1.6388969.., and (v) an infinite number of points smaller than q1, converging to 32/27 from above. Similar results hold for mathcalBq(v0) for any 1<v<0 (Potts antiferromagnet at nonzero temperature). The locus mathcalBq(v0) crosses the real-q axis at only two points for any v>0 (Potts ferromagnet). We also provide computer-generated plots of mathcalBq(v0) at various values of v0 in both the antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic regimes and compare them to numerically computed zeros of Z(D4,q,v0).



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