Year: 1995
Type: preprint
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).
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: David, Francois
Language: English
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4394649471