MULTICOMPONENT CHIRAL POTTS MODELS
It is shown that an (Nρ,Nσ) chiral Potts model, which is a generalization of the Ashkin-Teller model and consists of two chiral Potts models which are coupled together by four-spin interactions, can always be mapped to a single chiral Potts model of NρNσ states if Nρ and Nσ are relative prime. Moreover, if on every lattice site there are d spins with Nρ,…,Nσ states, respectively, similar mappings exist: If there are chiral two-spin interactions between nearest neighbor spins of the same kind and if the d sublattices are coupled together by chiral 2j-spin interactions for j≤d between the j pairs of spins, this defines a composite (Nρ,…,Nσ) state chiral Potts model. If (Ni,Nj)=1, for i≠j, i,j=1,…,d, then the composite model with (Nρ,…,Nσ) states can be mapped into a [Formula: see text]-state chiral Potts model. Finally, it is shown that if one or more of the spins of a unit cell sits on the dual lattice whereas the other spins sit on the original lattice, so that this is a generalization of the eight-vertex model in the spin language, such a mapping also exists. This mean that results obtained for the chiral Potts models can be used for many such composite models.