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Asymptotic expansion for the resistance between two maximum separated nodes on a $M \times N$ resistor network

Statistical Mechanics 2011-06-20 v1

Abstract

We analyze the exact formulae for the resistance between two arbitrary notes in a rectangular network of resistors under free, periodic and cylindrical boundary conditions obtained by Wu [J. Phys. A 37, 6653 (2004)]. Based on such expression, we then apply the algorithm of Ivashkevich, Izmailian and Hu [J. Phys. A 35, 5543 (2002)] to derive the exact asymptotic expansions of the resistance between two maximum separated nodes on an M×NM \times N rectangular network of resistors with resistors rr and ss in the two spatial directions. Our results is 1sRM×N(r,s)=c(ρ)lnS+c0(ρ,ξ)+p=1c2p(ρ,ξ)Sp \frac{1}{s}R_{M\times N}(r,s)= c(\rho)\, \ln{S}+c_0(\rho,\xi)+\sum_{p=1}^{\infty} \frac{c_{2p}(\rho,\xi)}{S^{p}} with S=MNS=M N, ρ=r/s\rho=r/s and ξ=M/N\xi=M/N. The all coefficients in this expansion are expressed through analytical functions. We have introduced the effective aspect ratio ξeff=ρ  ξ\xi_{eff} = \sqrt{\rho}\;\xi for free and periodic boundary conditions and ξeff=ρ  ξ/2\xi_{eff} = \sqrt{\rho}\;\xi/2 for cylindrical boundary condition and show that all finite size correction terms are invariant under transformation ξeff1/ξeff\xi_{eff} \to {1}/\xi_{eff}.

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@article{arxiv.1005.1434,
  title  = {Asymptotic expansion for the resistance between two maximum separated nodes on a $M \times N$ resistor network},
  author = {N. Sh. Izmailian and Ming-Chang Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1434},
  year   = {2011}
}

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24 pages, 4 figures