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The thermodynamic limit is considered for complex temperatures, and a picture of a phase transition, similar to the Yang-Lee picture, is proposed. For certain cases a representation of the partition function as an infinite product is obtained. Some simple models are considered.
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Gerald L. Jones (1966) studied this question.
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