Download or read book The Lace Expansion and its Applications written by Gordon Slade and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lace expansion is a powerful and flexible method for understanding the critical scaling of several models of interest in probability, statistical mechanics, and combinatorics, above their upper critical dimensions. These models include the self-avoiding walk, lattice trees and lattice animals, percolation, oriented percolation, and the contact process. This volume provides a unified and extensive overview of the lace expansion and its applications to these models.