We introduce the concept of a weakly periodic Gibbs measure. For the Ising model, we describe a set of such measures corresponding to normal subgroups of indices two and four in the group representation of a Cayley tree. In particular, we prove that for a Cayley tree of order four, there exist critical values Tc < Tcr of the temperature T > 0 such that there exist five weakly periodic Gibbs measures for 0 < T < Tc or T > Tcr, three weakly periodic Gibbs measures for T = Tc, and one weakly periodic Gibbs measure for Tc < T ≤ Tcr.

We present, for the Ising model on the Cayley tree, some explicit formulae of the free energies (and entropies) according to boundary conditions (b.c.). They include translation-invariant, periodic, Dobrushin-like b.c., as well as those corresponding to (recently discovered) weakly periodic Gibbs states. The later are defined through a partition of the tree that induces a 4-edge-coloring. We compute the density of each color. (2010). 82B26 (primary); 60K35 (secondary) Mathematics Subject Classifications

We introduce the notion of a weakly periodic configuration. For the Ising model with competing interactions, we describe the set of all weakly periodic ground states corresponding to normal divisors of indices 2 and 4 of the group representation of the Cayley tree. In addition, we study new Gibbs measures for the Ising model.

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