Current problems in statistical mechanics. Papers from the symposium in honor of Michael E. Fisher held in Washington, DC, USA, September 23--24, 1991 (Q1296329)

The seventy-nine papers in this collection include the following, which are being reviewed individually: Cyril Domb, Michael Fisher at King's College London (pp. 1-21); B. Derrida, The zeroes of the partition function of the random energy model (pp. 31-37); Bambi Hu and Bin Lin, Fisher zeros and Julia sets: a multifractal analysis (pp. 38-44); J. M. Hammersley, Self-avoiding walks (pp. 51-57); Martin P. Gelfand, Random walks in random media with random signs (pp. 67-72); Hikaru Kawamura, Entropy of the random triangle-square tiling (pp. 73-78); Daniel S. Fisher, Pathologies of the infinite-\(n\) limit of random anisotropy: spin glass transition or local crossover? (pp. 84-92); R. J. Baxter, On solving the Ising model functional relation without elliptic functions (pp. 101-108); Bernard Nienhuis, Locus of the tricritical transition in a two-dimensional \(q\)-state Potts model (pp. 109-113); J. C. Angles d'Auriac, J.-M. Maillard and F. Y. Wu, Three-state chiral Potts models in two dimensions: integrability and symmetry (pp. 114-122); George A. Baker, Jr. and Rajiv R. P. Singh, Bulk value of the central charge in conformally invariant critical phenomena (pp. 123-130); P. Mansfield and R. B. Stinchcombe, Fisher renormalisation and conformal field theory (pp. 131-138); Helen Au-Yang and Jacques H. H. Perk, Star-triangle equations and multicomponent chiral Potts models (pp. 139-145); Marcia C. Barbosa, Critical endpoints in the spherical model with rapidly decaying power-law interactions (pp. 153-160); R. Brout, On the maintenance of disorder (pp. 161-166); Estelle L. Basor and Craig A. Tracy, The Fisher-Hartwig conjecture and generalizations (pp. 167-173); Reinhard Lipowsky, Critical behavior of interacting manifolds (pp. 182-188); Nigel Goldenfeld and Y. Oono, Renormalisation group theory for two problems in linear continuum mechanics (pp. 213-219); David R. Nelson, Line liquids (pp. 220-232); Adolfo M. Nemirovsky and Mauricio D. Coutinho-Filho, Lattice covering time in \(D\) dimensions: theory and mean field approximation (pp. 233-240); Vladimir Privman, Finite-size scaling: new results (pp. 241-246); George Ruppeiner, Correlation function decay in linear continuum systems (pp. 247-252); D. K. Arrowsmith, P. Mason and J. W. Essam, Vicious walkers, flows and directed percolation (pp. 267-272); M. Ferer, W. N. Sams, R. A. Geisbrecht and Duane H. Smith, Scaling of fractal flow (pp. 273-280); M. Gitterman, Influence of a deterministic force on random systems (pp. 324-328); T. Arimitsu, M. Ban and T. Saito, Stochastic Liouville equation approach within nonequilibrium thermo field dynamics (pp. 329-338); Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Carl J. G. Evertsz, Multifractality of the harmonic measure on fractal aggregates, and extended self-similarity (pp. 386-393); T. Erber and D. Gavelek, The iterative evolution of complex systems (pp. 394-400); M. Droz, Z. Racz and P. Tartaglia, Crossover from Ising to mean-field critical behavior in a kinetic Ising model with competing flip and exchange dynamics (pp. 401-406); John Stephenson, Formulae for cycles in the Mandelbrot set (pp. 416-420); J. O. Indekeu, How universal is critical-point wetting ? (pp. 428-436); Martin Zapotocky and Timothy Halpin-Healy, \(2\)D critical wetting: revisited (pp. 453-459); A. Robledo, C. Varea and V. Romero-Rochin, Density functional theory beyond the surface tension. Interfacial width, elastic bending constants and line tension (pp. 474-482); Lev V. Mikheev and John D. Weeks, Sum rules for interface Hamiltonians (pp. 495-504); Miron Kaufman, Scaling thermodynamic model for type I superconductors (pp. 523-529); R. Shankar, Renormalization group for interacting fermions in \(d>1\) (pp. 530-536); Daniel Boyanovsky and David Jasnow, Quasi-long-range order in anyon superfluids (pp. 537-543); Yadin Y. Goldschmidt and Pik-Yin Lai, Quantum vector spin-glass in a field: results for general spin (pp. 544-552); N. David Mermin, Can a phase transition make quantum mechanics less embarrassing? (pp. 561-566); Daniel C. Mattis and Douglas Henderson, Screened Coulomb interaction or Hubbard model? (pp. 578-584). The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.