Dimensional Reduction and Crossover to Mean-Field Behavior for Branched Polymers

Details Dimensional Reduction and Crossover to Mean-Field Behavior for Branched Polymers Dimensional Reduction and Crossover to Mean-Field Behavior for Branched Polymers

2003-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0303015v1

Annales Henri Poincare 4, S445-S458 (2003)

Physics

Mathematical Physics

15 pages, 1 eps figure

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00023-003-0935-9

This article will review recent results on dimensional reduction for branched polymers, and discuss implications for critical phenomena. Parisi and Sourlas argued in 1981 that branched polymers fall into the universality class of the Yang-Lee edge in two fewer dimensions. Brydges and I have proven in [math-ph/0107005] that the generating function for self-avoiding branched polymers in D+2 continuum dimensions is proportional to the pressure of the hard-core continuum gas at negative activity in D dimensions (which is in the Yang-Lee or $i \phi^3$ class). I will describe how this equivalence arises from an underlying supersymmetry of the branched polymer model. - I will also use dimensional reduction to analyze the crossover of two-dimensional branched polymers to their mean-field limit, and to show that the scaling is given by an Airy function (the same as in [cond-mat/0107223]).

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