Abstract
Critical wetting has never been observed, presumably because long range forces lead to a first order transition. If it were observed the properties would be quite interesting. Indeed the upper critical dimension is three and fluctuations lead, in dimension three, to strong deviations from mean field theory.
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Brézin, E. (1985). The wetting transition. In: Garrido, L. (eds) Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-13911-7_77
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