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Critical exponents for random knots

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The size of a zero thickness (no excluded volume) polymer ring is shown to scale with chain length NN in the same way as the size of the excluded volume (self-avoiding) linear polymer, as NνN^{\nu}, where ν0.588\nu \approx 0.588. The consequences of that fact are examined, including sizes of trivial and non-trivial knots.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9906176,
  title  = {Critical exponents for random knots},
  author = {Alexander Yu. Grosberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9906176},
  year   = {2009}
}

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