Flory theory for conductivity of random resistor networks

We develop a Flory theory for the problem of conductivity in a d-dimensional random resistor network. We find that the conductivity exponent t is related to the fractal dimensionality df according to the Alexander-Orbach conjecture t = d - 2 + df/2, where consistently with Flory theory df = (d + 2)/2 for percolation and df = 2(d + 2)/5 for lattice animals. The results are in excellent agreement with the numerical estimates of t for percolation and in fair agreement for lattice animals.