Exact variational methods and cluster-variation approximations

It is shown that for classical,d-dimensional lattice models with finite-range interactions the translation-invariant equilibrium states have the property that their mean entropy is completely determined by their restriction to a subset of the lattice that is infinite in (d−1) dimensions and has a width equal to the range of the interaction in the dth dimension. This property is used to show proper convergence toward the exact result for a hierarchy of approximations of the cluster-variation method that uses one-dimensionally increasing basis clusters in a two-dimensional lattice.

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