Percolation on the average and spontaneous magnetization for q-states Potts model on graph

Alessandro Vezzani

Published 2003-06-06, updated 2005-02-08Version 2

We prove that the q-states Potts model on graph is spontaneously magnetized at finite temperature if and only if the graph presents percolation on the average. Percolation on the average is a combinatorial problem defined by averaging over all the sites of the graph the probability of belonging to a cluster of a given size. In the paper we obtain an inequality between this average probability and the average magnetization, which is a typical extensive function describing the thermodynamic behaviour of the model.