Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed in various ways to the material presented here. For general discussions I thank: Uriel Frisch, Brosl Hasslacher, David Levermore, Steve Orszag, Yves Pomeau, and Victor Yakhot. For specific suggestions I thank Roger Dashen, Dominique d'Humieres, Leo Kadanoff, Paul Martin, John Milnor, Steve Omohundro, Paul Steinhardt, and Larry Yaffe. Most of the calculations described here were made possible by using the SMP general-purpose computer mathematics system. I thank Thinking Machines Corporation for much encouragement and partial support of this work.

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