Harmonic crystal on the wall: A microscopic approach

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 523-566

  Bolthausen, Erwin ^a   Ioffe, Dmitry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WIAS   (Germany)

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EID: 0031549246     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050148     Document Type: Article

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