Crystalline ordering and large fugacity expansion for hard core lattice particles

Abstract

Using an extension of Pirogov-Sinai theory we prove phase transitions, corresponding to sublattice orderings, for a general class of hard core lattice particle systems with a finite number of close packed configurations. These include many cases for which such transitions have been proven. The proof also shows that, for these systems, the Gaunt-Fisher expansion of the pressure in powers of the inverse fugacity (aside from an explicit logarithmic term) has a nonzero radius of convergence.