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Random knots in three-dimensional three-colour percolation: numerical results and conjectures

Mathematical Physics 2019-05-21 v2 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Probability

Abstract

Three-dimensional three-colour percolation on a lattice made of tetrahedra is a direct generalization of two-dimensional two-colour percolation on the triangular lattice. The interfaces between one-colour clusters are made of bicolour surfaces and tricolour non-intersecting and non-self-intersecting curves. Because of the three-dimensional space, these curves describe knots and links. The present paper presents a construction of such random knots using particular boundary conditions and a numerical study of some invariants of the knots. The results are sources of precise conjectures about the limit law of the Alexander polynomial of the random knots.

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@article{arxiv.1811.09066,
  title  = {Random knots in three-dimensional three-colour percolation: numerical results and conjectures},
  author = {Marthe de Crouy-Chanel and Damien Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09066},
  year   = {2019}
}

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minor corrections in the text since v1

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