Published February 1990
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Journal Article
Computational aspects of simulating dynamically triangulated random surfaces
Abstract
We briefly outline string theory, explain how it is formulated discretely on a computer in terms of dynamically triangulated random surfaces, and describe a computer program that simulates such surfaces with extrinsic curvature embedded in arbitrary dimension.
Additional Information
© 1990 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Received 2 August 1989. DAJ was supported by an SERC Fellowship; CFB and RDW were supported in part by DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-85ER2S009. The computations were performed on the NCUBE hypercube, the Symult 2010 and the Meiko Computing Surface parallel computers at Caltech.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 80941
- DOI
- 10.1016/0010-4655(90)90139-R
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20170830-072237625
- Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC)
- DE-FG03-85ER2S009
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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