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Wulff Construction: A Global Shape from Local Interaction
 
Wulff Construction: A Global Shape from Local Interaction
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-4563-9
Product Code:  MMONO/104
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Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-4563-9
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Wulff Construction: A Global Shape from Local Interaction
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-4563-9
Product Code:  MMONO/104
List Price: $165.00
MAA Member Price: $148.50
AMS Member Price: $132.00
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-4515-7
Product Code:  MMONO/104.E
List Price: $155.00
MAA Member Price: $139.50
AMS Member Price: $124.00
Hardcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-4563-9
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-4515-7
Product Code:  MMONO/104.B
List Price: $320.00 $242.50
MAA Member Price: $288.00 $218.25
AMS Member Price: $256.00 $194.00
  • Book Details
     
     
    Translations of Mathematical Monographs
    Volume: 1041992; 204 pp
    MSC: Primary 82; Secondary 60; 85

    A theory of the equilibrium shape of crystal assuming minimal surface free energy was formulated at the beginning of the century by Wulff. Assuming that the anisotropic interfacial free energy (depending on the orientation of the interface with respect to the crystal axes) is known, the Wulff construction yields the shape of crystal in equilibrium and allows one to understand its main features. This research monograph considers the Wulff construction in the case of a two-dimensional Ising ferromagnet with periodic boundary conditions and at sufficiently low temperatures. Namely, the authors investigate the phenomenon of phase separation in a (small) canonical ensemble characterized by a fixed total spin in a finite volume. Its value is chosen to lie in the interval between the spontaneous magnetizations of pure phases. Heuristically, the main result can be stated this way: a droplet of one phase immersed in the opposite one will be formed with the separation line following with high accuracy the shape yielded by the Wulff construction. The book brings the reader through the entire development of the proof of this result.

    Readership

    Research mathematicians.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • Chapter I. Introduction
    • Chapter II. Extremal properties of the Wulff functional
    • Chapter III. Limit theorems
    • Chapter IV. Surface tension
    • Chapter V. Large contours
    • Chapter VI. Proof of the main results
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Volume: 1041992; 204 pp
MSC: Primary 82; Secondary 60; 85

A theory of the equilibrium shape of crystal assuming minimal surface free energy was formulated at the beginning of the century by Wulff. Assuming that the anisotropic interfacial free energy (depending on the orientation of the interface with respect to the crystal axes) is known, the Wulff construction yields the shape of crystal in equilibrium and allows one to understand its main features. This research monograph considers the Wulff construction in the case of a two-dimensional Ising ferromagnet with periodic boundary conditions and at sufficiently low temperatures. Namely, the authors investigate the phenomenon of phase separation in a (small) canonical ensemble characterized by a fixed total spin in a finite volume. Its value is chosen to lie in the interval between the spontaneous magnetizations of pure phases. Heuristically, the main result can be stated this way: a droplet of one phase immersed in the opposite one will be formed with the separation line following with high accuracy the shape yielded by the Wulff construction. The book brings the reader through the entire development of the proof of this result.

Readership

Research mathematicians.

  • Chapters
  • Chapter I. Introduction
  • Chapter II. Extremal properties of the Wulff functional
  • Chapter III. Limit theorems
  • Chapter IV. Surface tension
  • Chapter V. Large contours
  • Chapter VI. Proof of the main results
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