Gibbs measures of an Ising-Vannimenus Model with one-level competing interactions on 4th order Cayley tree.

In this paper, we study an Ising-Vannimenus model on a fourth-order semi-infinite Cayley tree with one-level next-nearest-neighbor interactions. We construct the set of translation-invariant Gibbs measures corresponding to the model satisfying Kolmogorov consistency conditions. We prove the existence of the phase transition under specific conditions on the coupling constants and temperature.