Phase diagram and fluctuations in the cubic mean field Ising model

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We study the cubic mean field Ising model with three body and two body interactions and an external field. Our main result is a complete classification of the global maximizers of the variational pressure in the full three-parameter region $(K,J,h)\in(0,\infty)\times\mathbb R^2$. We identify a coexistence surface with two nondegenerate global maximizers and a critical curve with a unique quartically degenerate maximizer; elsewhere the maximizer is unique and nondegenerate. This extends the phase diagrams previously obtained on two-parameter subfamilies \cite{CMO24,O24}. As applications of the general results in \cite{CR}, we give explicit magnetization fluctuation theorems and asymptotic distributions for one-parameter maximum likelihood estimators in the resulting regimes.