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Phase Transitions, Scale Invariance, Renormalization Group Theory, and Percolation

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Schwabl, F. (2006). Phase Transitions, Scale Invariance, Renormalization Group Theory, and Percolation. In: Statistical Mechanics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36217-7_7

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