Abstract
An order-parameter theory of the crumpling transition in -dimensional polymerized membranes embedded in dimensions is developed. Within mean-field theory, we show how self-avoidance modifies the behavior at the second-order crumpling transition. Fluctuations drive the transition first order to lowest order in , for .
- Received 21 March 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2638
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