CRITICAL PROPERTIES OF NONEQUILIBRIUM CRUMPLED SYSTEMS

Geometrical and statistical properties of non-equilibrium crumpled surfaces (CS) and crumpled wires (CW) are investigated and compared. The relationship between the geodesic distance x and the Pythagorean distance r in CS and CW and their dependence on the linear (uncrumpled) size L is studied. Among other results we show that the moments of the probability distribution P(x, r) for CS requires an infinite hierarchy of critical exponents.