Anisotropic cubic lattice Potts ferromagnet: renormalisation group treatment

Within a real space renormalisation group framework, the authors discuss the criticality of the full anisotropic (arbitrary J x , J y and J z )q-state Potts ferromagnet in the simple cubic lattice. Several previously known exact results for the d=1 and d=2 particular cases are recovered. Furthermore they obtain: (i) the q-dependence of the d=3 correlation length critical exponent nu 3 (in particular, if q to 0, nu 3 (q) approximately nu 3 (0)+ nu 3 '(0)q where the present approximate values are nu 3 (0) approximately=1.105 and nu 3 '(0) approximately=-0.66); (ii) the q-dependence of the d=2 to or from d=3 crossover critical exponent phi 23 (in particular, phi 23 varies as 1/ square root q if q to 0); (iii) through a convenient numerical extrapolation, a quite accurate proposal for the critical temperatures corresponding to arbitrary ratios, J y /J x and J z /J x and values of q.