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Distribution of the distance between opposite nodes of random polygons with a fixed knot

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We examine numerically the distribution function fK(r)f_K(r) of distance rr between opposite polygonal nodes for random polygons of NN nodes with a fixed knot type KK. Here we consider three knots such as \emptyset, 313_1 and 31313_1 \sharp 3_1. In a wide range of rr, the shape of fK(r)f_K(r) is well fitted by the scaling form of self-avoiding walks. The fit yields the Gaussian exponents νK=12\nu_K = {1 \over 2} and γK=1\gamma_K = 1. Furthermore, if we re-scale the intersegment distance rr by the average size RKR_K of random polygons of knot KK, the distribution function of the variable r/RKr/R_K should become the same Gaussian distribution for any large value of NN and any knot KK. We also introduce a fitting formula to the distribution gK(R)g_K(R) of gyration radius RR for random polygons under some topological constraint KK.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403237,
  title  = {Distribution of the distance between opposite nodes of random polygons with a fixed knot},
  author = {Akihisa Yao and Hiroshi Tsukahara and Tetsuo Deguchi and Takeo Inami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403237},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables