ABSTRACT

X. THE E FFE C T OF RANDOM IM PURITIES AND MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

We discuss the effect of random impurities in some

detail, with emphasis upon basic concepts and ideas. The

RG approach needs to be formulated slightly differently

when quenched impurities are present. We also include a

b r ie f section on the use of graphs in studying quenched

impurities. The self-avoiding random walk problem is

then discussed, and its connection to the crit ica l behavior

of the n = 0 Ginzburg-Landau model is demonstrated.