A numerical approach to copolymers at selective interfaces

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 799-832

  Caravenna, Francesco ^a,b   Giacomin, Giambattista ^b   Gubinelli, Massimiliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concentration of Measure; Copolymers; Corrections to Laplace estimates; Disordered Models; Large Deviations; Localization Transition; Statistical Tests; Transfer Matrix Approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645939212     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-005-8081-z     Document Type: Article

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