Metastability of the three dimensional ising model on a torus at very low temperatures

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-55

  Arous, Gérard Ben ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Droplet; Freidlin Wentzell theory; Ising; Large deviations; Metastability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878078962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v1-10     Document Type: Article

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