Abstract
A family of nonequilibrium kinetic Ising models, introduced earlier, evolving under the competing effect of spin flips at zero temperature and nearest-neighbour random spin exchanges, is further investigated. By increasing the range of spin exchanges and/or their strength the nature of the phase transition 'Ising-to-active' becomes of (dynamic) mean-field type and a first-order tricritical point is located at the Glauber ( delta =0) limit. Corrections to the mean-field theory are evaluated up to sixth order in a cluster approximation and found to give good results concerning the phase boundary and the critical exponent beta of the order parameter which is obtained as beta approximately=1.0.
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