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Gonihedric Ising Actions

D. A. Johnston, R. P. K. C. Malmini

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9607003

Abstract

We discuss a generalized Ising action containing nearest neighbour, next to nearest neighbour and plaquette terms that has been suggested as a potential string worldsheet discretization on cubic lattices by Savvidy and Wegner. This displays both first and second order transitions depending on the value of a ``self-intersection'' coupling as well as possessing a novel semi-global symmetry.

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