Ice model and eight-vertex model on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket
Abstract
We present the numbers of ice model and eight-vertex model configurations (with Boltzmann factors equal to one), I(n) and E(n) respectively, on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket SG(n) at stage . For the eight-vertex model, the number of configurations is and the entropy per site, defined as where is the number of vertices on SG(n), is exactly equal to . For the ice model, the upper and lower bounds for the entropy per site are derived in terms of the results at a certain stage. As the difference between these bounds converges quickly to zero as the calculated stage increases, the numerical value of the entropy can be evaluated with more than a hundred significant figures accurate. The corresponding result of ice model on the generalized two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket SG_b(n) with is also obtained. For the generalized vertex model on SG_3(n), the number of configurations is and the entropy per site is equal to . The general upper and lower bounds for the entropy per site for arbitrary are conjectured.
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@article{arxiv.1203.1132,
title = {Ice model and eight-vertex model on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket},
author = {Shu-Chiuan Chang and Lung-Chi Chen and Hsin-Yun Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1132},
year = {2013}
}
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20 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables