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 in the same way as the size of the excluded volume (self-avoiding) linear polymer, as , where . 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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