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Applications of a statistical mechanics of random surfaces in condensed matter physics and relativistic quantum field theory are sketched. Different random surface models are introduced. Their common mean-field theory is briefly described. The so-called planar random surface — (or Nambu-Goto string-) model, a surface analogue of Brownian motion, is studied in more detail and shown to exhibit mean-field behaviour in all dimensions.
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Fröhlich, J. (1985). The statistical mechanics of surfaces. In: Garrido, L. (eds) Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-13911-7_73
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