Multicanonical Recursions

Abstract

The problem of calculating multicanonical parameters recursively is discussed. I describe in detail a computational implementation which has worked reasonably well in practice.

23 pages, latex, 4 postscript figures included (uuencoded Z-compressed .tar file created by uufiles), figure file corrected.

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