Gradient Gibbs measures for the SOS model with integer spin values on a Cayley tree

Abstract

In the present paper we continue the investigation from [1] and consider the SOS (solid-on-solid) model on the Cayley tree of order $k \geq 2$. In the ferromagnetic SOS case on the Cayley tree, we find three solutions to a class of period-4 height-periodic boundary law equations and these boundary laws define up to three periodic gradient Gibbs measures.