2017/03/25 by Martin Horsch, Martin Thomas Horsch, Horsch, Martin Thomas +17
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.08719
Manuscript arXiv:1703.08719 [cond-mat.soft] contains claims that were shown to be incorrect; the manuscript and the claims are retracted
openalex publication_date 2017/03/25 · arxiv created 2019/07/03 · arxiv updated 2019/07/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In manuscript arXiv:1703.08719 [cond-mat.soft], it was claimed that the well-known deduction of Tolman's law is not rigorous, since Tolman's argument implies that two different definitions of the surface tension, called γ and γ in the manuscript, coincide. This claim is retracted as it can be shown by free-energy minimization that γ= γ indeed holds for the Laplace radius. Joachim Groß, Philipp Rehner, Carlos Vega, Øivind Wilhelmsen, and the anonymous reviewers of The Journal of Chemical Physics contributed to finding the mistake in the manuscript.