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In this contribution to the special issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics dedicated to Michael Fisher on his 70'th birthday, I shall review two thermodynamically distinct routes for obtaining the interfacial tension of liquid-vapor…
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The article is a translation of authors paper printed earlier in the inaccessible edition and summarizing the results of research of gravitational waves damping problem in the cosmologic plasma due to the different interactions of…
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