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Nuclear Physics B
Volume 410, Issue 3, 27 December 1993, Pages 494-520
 
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On spin and matrix models in the complex plane

Poul H. Damgaard

Urs M. Heller

CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA

Received 26 July 1993; 
accepted 2 September 1993. 
Available online 18 October 2002.

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Abstract

We describe various aspects of statistical mechanics defined in the complex temperature or coupling-constant plane. Using exactly solvable models, we analyse such aspects as renormalization group flows in the complex plane, the distribution of partition function zeros, and the question of new coupling-constant symmetries of complex-plane spin models. The double-scaling form of matrix models is shown to be exactly equivalent to finite-size scaling of two-dimensional spin systems. This is used to show that the string susceptibility exponents derived from matrix models can be obtained numerically with very high accuracy from the scaling of finite-N partition function zeros in the complex plane.

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Nuclear Physics B
Volume 410, Issue 3, 27 December 1993, Pages 494-520
 
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