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Thermodynamics of the 3-State Potts Spin Chain
We demonstrate the relation of the infrared anomaly of conformal field theory
with entropy considerations of finite temperature thermodynamics for the
3-state Potts chain. We compute the free energy and compute the low temperature
specific heat for both the ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic spin chains,
and find the central charges for both.Comment: 18 pages, LaTex. Preprint # ITP-SB-92-60. References added and first
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