Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gibbs Fields (Basic Notions)
  • §0 First Acquaintance with Gibbs Fields
  • §1 Gibbs Modifications
  • §2 Gibbs Modifications under Boundary Conditions and Definition of Gibbs Fields by Means of Conditional Distributions
  • 2. Semi-Invariants and Combinatorics
  • §1 Semi-Invariants and Their Elementary Properties
  • §2 Hermite-Itô-Wick Polynomials. Diagrams. Integration by Parts
  • §3 Estimates on Moments and Semi-Invariants of Functional of Gaussian Families
  • §4 Connectedness and Summation over Trees
  • §5 Estimates on Intersection Number
  • §6 Lattices and Computations of Their Möbius Functions
  • §7 Estimate of Semi-Invariants of Partially Dependent Random Variables
  • §8 Abstract Diagrams (Algebraic Approach)
  • 3. General Scheme of Cluster Expansion
  • §1 Cluster Representation of Partition Functions and Ensembles of Subsets
  • §2 Cluster Expansion of Correlation Functions
  • §3 Limit Correlation Function and Cluster Expansion of Measures
  • §4 Cluster Expansion and Asymptotics of Free Energy. Analyticity of Correlation Functions
  • §5 Regions of Cluster Expansions for the Ising Model
  • §6 Point Ensembles
  • 4. Small Parameters in Interactions
  • §1 Gibbs Modifications of Independent Fields with Bounded Potential
  • §2 Unbounded Interactions in the Finite-Range Part of a Potential
  • §3 Gibbs Modifications of d-Dependent Fields
  • §4 Gibbs Point Field in Rv
  • §5 Models with Continuous Time
  • §6 Expansion of Semi-Invariants. Perturbation of a Gaussian Field
  • §7 Perturbation of a Gaussian Field with Slow Decay of Correlations
  • §8 Modifications of d-Markov Gaussian Fields (Interpolation of Inverse Covariance)
  • 5. Expansions Around Ground States (Low-Temperature Expansions)
  • §1 Discrete Spin: Countable Number of Ground States
  • §2 Continuous Spin: UniqueGround State
  • §3 Continuous Spin: Two Ground States
  • 6. Decay of Correlations
  • §1 Hierarchy of the Properties of Decay of Correlations
  • §2 An Analytic Method of Estimation of Semi-Invariants of Bounded Quasi-Local Functionals
  • §3 A Combinatorial Method of Estimation of Semi-Invariants in the Case of Exponentially-Regular Cluster Expansion
  • §4 Slow (power) Decay of Correlations
  • §5 Low-Temperature Region
  • §6 Scaling Limit of a Random Field
  • 7. Supplementary Topics and Applications
  • §1 Gibbs Quasistates
  • §2 Uniqueness of Gibbs Fields
  • §3 Compactness of Gibbs Modifications
  • §4 Gauge Field with Gauge Group Z2
  • §5 Markov Processes with Local Interaction
  • §6 Ensemble of External Contours
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliographic Comments
  • References