Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 67, Nos. 5/6, 1992, p. 1185-1200.
We continue an earlier study of multisite interaction Ising spin models on Husimi trees. In particular, attention is given to systems with both a nearest-neighbor pair interaction and three-site interactions. We use our calculations of the phase diagrams of the systems on Husimi trees as approximations of systems with the same interactions but on a regular lattice, e.g., the triangle lattice. Specific models where exact results are available are used as test cases. All of the work involves computation of quantities, such as the magnetization, by iterative processes. Hence we are dealing with a discrete map and for certain values of the interaction strengths we obtain for the magnetization diagram results involving period doubling, chaos, period-three windows, etc., all phenomena of recent interest in connection with dynamical systems and now associated with certain Ising spin systems.