Renormalization group analysis of layering transitions in solid films.

The layering critical points of a multilayer adsorbed solid film are examined using a renormalization group. The critical temperature, T(c,n), of the nth layering transition will, for large n, be less than the roughening temperature, T(R), of the corresponding interface between bulk phases by an amount proportional to 1/log(2)n. The layering critical points are in the universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model.