Chaotic behavior of the $P$-adic Potts-Bethe mapping

Abstract

In our previous investigations, we have developed the renormalization group method to $p$-adic models on Cayley trees, this method is closely related to the investigation of $p$-adic dynamical systems associated with a given model. In this paper, we study chaotic behavior of the Potts-Bethe mapping. We point out that a similar kind of result is not known in the case of real numbers (with rigorous proofs).