Self-Avoiding Random Manifolds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-02-03 v2
Abstract
These lectures deal with: (1) a brief review of the theory of flexible random manifolds (with fixed intrinsic metric), connected to the physics of polymerized membranes, and of the effect of extrinsic curvature (crumpling transitions); (2) a discussion of the effect of self-avoidance and its renormalization group treatment in term of a non-local field theory (this last part is not much different from cond-mat/9509096).
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511107,
title = {Self-Avoiding Random Manifolds},
author = {Francois David},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511107},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Lectures given at the Cargese Summer School "Low Dimensional Applications of Quantum Field Theory", 11 - 31 July 1995, 17 pages, LaTeX + epsf.sty, 13 figures (only LaTeX format changed to fit with the Archive PostScript generator)