Marginal relevance of disorder for pinning models

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-265

  Giacomin, Giambattista ^a   Lacoin, Hubert ^a   Toninelli, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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EID: 76549091999     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20301     Document Type: Article

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