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• Dynamic phase transitions of the mixed spin (1/2, 3/2) system are investigated by the path probability method. • The system undergoes two successive phase transitions in some cases. • The system exhibits one or two dynamic tricritical and double critical end points. • The system contains the paramagnetic, ferrimagnetic and mixed phases. • The system displays reentrant behavior for certain interaction parameter. Dynamic phase transitions (DPTs) of the mixed spin (1/2, 3/2) Ising ferrimagnetic model on the two interpenetrating square lattice with the bilinear and crystal-field interactions under a time-varying (sinusoidal) magnetic field were examined by using the path probability method (PPM). We studied stationary solutions of dynamic average magnetizations and obtained phases and then we investigated thermal behaviors of dynamic magnetizations to designate the nature of the DPTs and find the DPT temperatures. We also constructed the dynamic phase diagrams (DPDs) in two different planes. DPDs exhibit the paramagnetic (p), ferrimagnetic (i), and mixed phases (i + p), and one or two dynamic tricritical points and dynamic double critical end points. The reentrant behavior is also seen. We observed that the PPM is a more appropriate dynamic method to study the dynamic features of ferrimagnetism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• We study a frustrated general spin-S Ising antiferromagnet on a kagome lattice. • We explore possibility of long-range ordering for any finite or infinite values of S. • Character of the spin-correlation function is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. • It is found that system remains disordered for any spin S and any finite temperature. The possibility of the emergence of some kind of long-range ordering (LRO) due to the increase of multiplicity of the local degrees of freedom (spin value S) is studied in an Ising antiferromagnet on a kagome lattice (IAKL) by Monte Carlo simulation. In particular, the critical exponent of the spin correlation function, obtained from a finite-size scaling analysis, is evaluated for various values of S , including S = ∞ , with the goal to determine whether there exists some threshold value of the spin S C above which the system would show true or quasi-LRO, similar to a related model on a triangular lattice (IATL). It is found that, unlike in the IATL case, the IAKL model remains disordered for any spin value and any finite temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]