Gradient Gibbs measures with periodic boundary laws of a generalized SOS model on a Cayley tree

Abstract

We consider Gradient Gibbs measures corresponding to a periodic boundary law for a generalized SOS model with spin values from a countable set, on Cayley trees. On the Cayley tree, detailed information on Gradient Gibbs measures for models of SOS type are given in \cite{3, 16,8,11} and we continue the works for the generalized SOS model. Namely, in this paper, the problem of finding Gradient Gibbs measures that correspond to periodic boundary laws is reduced to a functional equation and by solving the equation all Gradient Gibbs measures with 4 periodic boundary laws are found.