Geometric Implementation of Hypercubic Lattices with Noninteger Dimensionality by Use of Low Lacunarity Fractal Lattices

Yuval Gefen, Yigal Meir, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Amnon Aharony
Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 145 – Published 17 January 1983
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Abstract

It is claimed that the abstract analytic continuation of hypercubic lattices to noninteger dimensionalities can be implemented explicitly by certain fractal lattices of low lacunarity. These lattices are special examples of Sierpinski carpets. Their being of low lacunarity means that they are arbitrarily close to being translationally invariant. The claim is substantiated for the Ising model in D=1+ε dimensions, and for resistor network models with 1<D<2.

  • Received 7 September 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.145

©1983 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yuval Gefen and Yigal Meir

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

Amnon Aharony

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

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Vol. 50, Iss. 3 — 17 January 1983

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