Self-Avoiding Gonihedric Srting and Spin Systems

Abstract

We classify different theories of self-intersecting random surfaces assigning special weights to intersections. When self-intersection coupling constant $\kappa$ tends to zero, then the surface can freely inetrsect and it is completely self-avoiding when $\kappa$ tends to infinity. Equivalent spin systems for this general case were constructed. In two-dimension the system with $\kappa = 0$ is in complete disorder as it is in the case of 2D gauge Ising system.