The critical behavior of the general isotropic, ferromagnetic two-dimensional spin system with openZ(5) symmetry is studied with use of high-temperature expansions of its mass gap. On the basis of these expansions we propose a simple analytic representation of the mass gap which naturally reproduces all the different phase transitions exhibited by this model (first order and second order of the Ising and of the Kosterlitz-Thouless types). In addition, the bifurcation point where the soft phases originate is clearly identified with the Fateev-Zamolodchikov value.

• Received 25 February 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.44.390