title: Connecting the vulcanization transition to percolation.
abstract: The vulcanization transition is addressed via a minimal replica-field-theoretic model. The appropriate long-wavelength behavior of the two- and three-point vertex functions is considered diagrammatically, to all orders in perturbation theory, and identified with the corresponding quantities in the Houghton-Reeve-Wallace field-theoretic approach to the percolation critical phenomenon. Hence, it is shown that percolation theory correctly captures the critical phenomenology of the vulcanization transition associated with the liquid and critical states.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Goldbart
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: McKane