Enhanced interface repulsion from quenched hard-wall randomness

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 487-516

  Bertacchi, Daniela ^a   Giacomin, Giambattista ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Entropic Repulsion; Extrema of Random Fields; Gaussian fields; Harmonic Crystal; Large Deviations; Quenched and Annealed Models; Random Walks; Rough Substrate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036882778     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004400200223     Document Type: Article

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