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Percolation and related systems in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNM,volume 1035)

Abstract

We review the relations of percolation and related geometrical models to equilibrium statistical mechanical models. These relations are of two sorts: 1) Percolation and related geometrical models have been shown to be equivalent to limits of models in equilibrium statistical mechanics in many cases. 2) Many models exist in which a field subject to thermal disorder is added to the geometrically disordered model so that the two kinds of disorder compete. Throughout this review we attempt to point out places where mathematically exact results might be useful.

Keywords

  • Renormalization Group
  • Ising Model
  • Percolation Model
  • Geometric Problem
  • Bond Percolation

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Halley, J.W., Dasgupta, C. (1983). Percolation and related systems in equilibrium statistical mechanics. In: Hughes, B.D., Ninham, B.W. (eds) The Mathematics and Physics of Disordered Media: Percolation, Random Walk, Modeling, and Simulation. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1035. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0073263

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