The Work of Daniel Wells, Forty Years Late

Abstract: In working on a book I’m writing on “Phase Transitions in the Theory of Lattice Gases”, I came across an unpublished 1977 thesis of Daniel Wells with some beautiful results comparing Ising type models with different apriori single spin distributions.. I will describe his unpublished work as well as some interesting extensions I found to D-component models that may be new (they are not in the thesis but may have been in a mystery preprint that I have not gotten ahold of!). I’ll also discuss some open problems.

mathematical physicsspectral theory

Audience: researchers in the topic

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