1995/09/15 by Francois David, David, Francois
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9509096
Invited Talk at STATPHYS19, Xiamen, China, 31 July - 4 August 1995, 12 pages, LATEX + sprocl.sty + epsf.sty, 12 figures
arxiv created 1995/09/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Recent progresses in the understanding of the scaling behavior of self-avoiding flexible polymerized membranes (tethered manifolds) are reviewed. They rely on a new general renormalization group approach for a class of models with non-local singular interactions. This approach allows to prove the existence of a epsilon-expansion for the scaling exponents, and validates the one loop results obtained by direct renormalization methods. Applications of the method to polymerized membranes at the tricritical Theta-point are presented.