Francesca COLAIORI
University of Manchester
Directed Percolation and Generalized Friendly Random
Walkers
We show that the problem of directed percolation on an arbitrary lattice
is equivalent to the problem of m directed random walkers with rather general
attractive interactions, when suitably continued to m = 0 . In 1 + 1 dimensions,
this is dual to a model of interacting steps on a vicinal surface. A similar
correspondence
with interacting self-avoiding walks is constructed for isotropic percolation.
[1] PRL 82 , 2232 (1999)