Strings with Extrinsic Curvature: An Analysis of the Crossover Regime

TL;DR

This paper reports Monte Carlo simulations of random surfaces with extrinsic curvature, analyzing their behavior in the crossover regime to investigate potential phase transitions.

Contribution

It provides new simulation data on the effects of extrinsic curvature on random surfaces and examines the nature of the crossover regime.

Findings

Analysis of observables suggests possible phase transition behavior.

Simulation results contribute to understanding of extrinsic curvature effects.

Discussion on whether a true phase transition occurs.

Abstract

We present the results of a set of Monte Carlo simulations of Dynamically Triangulated Random Surfaces embedded in three dimensions with an extrinsic curvature dependent action. We analyze several observables in the crossover regime and discuss whether or not our observations are indicative of the presence of a phase transition.