Entropic repulsion for massless fields

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 333-354

  Deuschel, Jean Dominique ^a,b   Giacomin, Giambattista ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

60K35; 82C24; Entropic repulsion; Gibbs measures; Massless fields; Random surfaces; Random walk in random environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007192886     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(00)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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