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Roughness of Randomly Crumpled Elastic Sheets

arXiv:cond-mat/9507056

Abstract

We study the roughness of randomly crumpled elastic sheets. Based on analytical and numerical calculations, we find that they are self affine with a roughness exponent equal to one. Such crumpling occurs {\it e.g.\/} when wet paper dries. We also discuss the case of correlated crumpling, which occurs in connection with flattening of randomly folded paper.

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