Abstract:
The structure of the free-energy expansion of an anisotropic system is
investigated in the framework of an exactly solvable model of phase
transitions that preserves the interaction of fluctuations with momenta
of equal magnitudes and opposite directions. It is shown that the
coefficients of the fourth-order form vary with the temperature in the
critical region, forming a phase portrait qualitatively similar to the
one obtained by the renormalization-group method.