Constrained variational problem with applications to the Ising model

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 867-905

  Schonmann, Roberto H ^a   Shlosman, Senya B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Boundary effects; Ising model; Large deviations; Wulff shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030543461     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02179548     Document Type: Article

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