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On Entropic Reduction of Fluctuations

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We point out that there is no general relation between ground state degeneracy and finite-temperature fluctuations for tilted interfaces.

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  1. Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris 7, Case 7012, 2 Place Jussieu, F-75251, Paris, France

    Thierry Bodineau & Giambattista Giacomin

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, (I), France

    Giambattista Giacomin

  3. Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel

    Yvan Velenik

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Bodineau, T., Giacomin, G. & Velenik, Y. On Entropic Reduction of Fluctuations. Journal of Statistical Physics 102, 1439–1445 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004860900450

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