Weakly Periodic Gibbs Measures for HC-Models on Cayley Trees

Abstract

We study hard-core (HC) models on Cayley trees. Given a 2-state HC-model, we prove that exactly two weakly periodic (aperiodic) Gibbs measures exist under certain conditions on the parameters. Moreover, we consider fertile 4-state HC-models with the activity parameter λ > 0. The three types of these models are known to exist. For one of the models we show that the translationinvariant Gibbs measure is not unique.