Studies of tethered network models
Edward Levinson · Summit (Simon Fraser University) · 1992
Biblioth&que nationale du Canada de reproduire, pr&er, distribuer ou vendre des copies de sa these de quelque maniere et sous quelque forme que ce soit pour mettre des exemplaires de cette these a la disposition des personnes interesskes.The author retains ownership of L'auteur conserve la proprietk du the copyright in his/her thesis.droit d'auteur qui protege sa Neither the thesis nor substantial these.Ni la these ni des extraits extracts from it may be printed or substantiels de celle-ci ne otherwise reproduced without doivent &re Emprimes ou his/her permission.autrernent reproduits sans son i n any undertaking as tedious, long, and dubious as this one, it is hard t o know whether or not my collaborators would wish to have their association witk this project publicized.I suppose I coitld ask them, hut honesty compels me to name all the guilty parties.Let it be a lesson to them for the future.Although I am a classicist at heart, I will take the time-honored tradition of thanking the supervisor first and the spouse last, and stand it on its head.My wife, Cathy, has endured her time as a thesis widow with more patience, humor and good grace than anyone could reasonably ask for.I promise never t o do this to her again.?'he work in this thesis is mine, but the ideas, for the most part, belong to others.David B o d suggested that I study tethered membranes in four and five dimensions (Chapter 4).IIsns-Werner Dield suggested the asphericity calculation for the model described in Chapter 3, and it was Michael Wortis' questions that led to a more general analysis of this model.The idea for the Sierpihski gasket simulations (Chapter 5) was mine, but without Mike Pliscltkc's insistence that the idea was p~tentia~lly interesting, I would not have pursued it.