Plane partition vesicles

Abstract

We examine partitions and their natural three-dimensional generalizations, plane partitions, as models of vesicles undergoing an inflation–deflation transition. The phase diagrams of these models include a critical point corresponding to an inflation–deflation transition, and exhibits multicritical scaling in the vicinity of a multicritical point located elsewhere on the critical curve. We determine the locations of the multicritical points by analysing the generating functions using analytic and numerical means. In addition, we determine the numerical values of the multicritical scaling exponents associated with the multicritical scaling regimes in these models.