Ising-like criticality derived from the theory of fluids.
It is shown that the conventional theory based on the integral equations for the correlation functions of fluid allows for a reasonable scaling analysis of the critical phenomena. The calculated critical exponents are in rather good agreement with the experimental data for real media, but some of the exponents (first of all, Fisher's exponent eta ) differ from the values predicted by the three-dimensional Ising model. The possibility to obtain Ising-like criticality from the statistical theory of fluids means that the latter does not disagree with the Kadanoff-Wilson-Fisher renormalization group approach.
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Research Institute of Physics, I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University, 27 Pasteur St., Odessa, 65026 Ukraine. bondvic@mail.ru