Long-Range Interactions and Rigidity in Surfaces and Lamellar Phases

ABSTRACTRecently there has been a large effort to understand the statistical and phase behavior of collections of surfaces and membranes. Experimental activity has focused on the behavior of stacked films in lamellar phases of microemulsions. Here I briefly sumnmarize the role of fluctuations and undulations in four classes of films: fluid, hexatic, solid, and charged.