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Equilibrium shapes of crystals in contact with more than one substrate, e.g., droplets at a corner or the edge of two planes, are described. This generalizes a construction due to Wulff and Winterbottom and, unlike them, allows non-convex equilibrium shapes. Since this construction may require a central inversion of the Wulff plot, it is dubbed “the summertop construction.”
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Zia, R.K.P., Avron, J.E. & Taylor, J.E. The summertop construction: Crystals in a corner. J Stat Phys 50, 727–736 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01026498
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