Gonihedric Ising Actions
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We discuss a generalized Ising action containing nearest neighbour, next to nearest neighbour and plaquette terms that has been suggested as a potential string worldsheet discretization on cubic lattices by Savvidy and Wegner. This displays both first and second order transitions depending on the value of a ``self-intersection'' coupling as well as possessing a novel semi-global symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9607003,
title = {Gonihedric Ising Actions},
author = {D. A. Johnston and R. P. K. C. Malmini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9607003},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex + 2 postscript figures. Poster session contribution to "Lattice96" conference, Washington University, StLouis