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Directed Percolation and Generalized Friendly Walkers

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We show that the problem of directed percolation on an arbitrary lattice is equivalent to the problem of m directed random walkers with rather general attractive interactions, when suitably continued to m=0. In 1+1 dimensions, this is dual to a model of interacting steps on a vicinal surface. A similar correspondence with interacting self-avoiding walks is constructed for isotropic percolation.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9902141,
  title  = {Directed Percolation and Generalized Friendly Walkers},
  author = {John Cardy and Francesca Colaiori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9902141},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett