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It is shown that in the metastable region of a first-order wetting transition critical droplets occur which sit on the wall of the system. Under general conditions the critical droplet has a single unstable growth mode but its shape is stable with respect to all other fluctuations. These properties can be derived analytically for a simple model system with a one-dimensional wall.
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Bausch et al. (1991) studied this question.
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