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Amphiphilic Membranes

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Amphiphilic molecules and the phases they form 3. Isolated membranes: the Helfrich hamiltonian 4. Vesicle shapes 5. Shape fluctuations in vesicles 6. Interacting fluid membranes 7. Conclusions A. Differential equations for vesicle shapes B. The Faddeev-Popov determinant C. One-loop calculation of the renormalization group D. The Liouville model