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Let D be a domain in the plane containing the origin. We are interested in the ensemble of self-avoiding walks (SAW's) in D which start at the origin and end on the boundary of the domain. We introduce an ensemble of SAW's that we expect to…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Tom Kennedy

We study the nature of the generating series of some models of walks with small steps in the three quarter plane. More precisely, we restrict ourselves to the situation where the group is infinite, the kernel has genus one, and the step set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Thomas Dreyfus , Amélie Trotignon

We study the 2-dimensional uniform prudent self-avoiding walk, which assigns equal probability to all nearest-neighbor self-avoiding paths of a fixed length that respect the prudent condition, namely, the path cannot take any step in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Nicolas Pétrélis , Rongfeng Sun , Niccolò Torri

We introduce classes of restricted walks, surfaces and their generalisations. For example, self-osculating walks (SOWs) are supersets of self-avoiding walks (SAWs) where edges are still not allowed to cross but may 'kiss' at a vertex. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Sun Woo P. Kim , Gabriele Pinna

Oriented self-avoiding walks (OSAWs) on a square lattice are studied, with binding energies between steps that are oriented parallel across a face of the lattice. By means of exact enumeration and Monte Carlo simulation, we reconstruct the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. T. Barkema , S. Flesia

Many recent papers deal with the enumeration of 2-dimensional walks with prescribed steps confined to the positive quadrant. The classification is now complete for walks with steps in $\{0, \pm 1\}^2$: the generating function is D-finite if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Alin Bostan , Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , Manuel Kauers , Stephen Melczer

In this work we consider two different aspects of weighted walks in cones. To begin we examine a particular weighted model, known as the Gouyou-Beauchamps model. Using the theory of analytic combinatorics in several variables we obtain the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Julien Courtiel , Stephen Melczer , Marni Mishna , Kilian Raschel

A planar self-avoiding walk (SAW) is a nearest neighbor random walk path in the square lattice with no self-intersection. A planar self-avoiding polygon (SAP) is a loop with no self-intersection. In this paper we present conjectures for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregory F. Lawler , Oded Schramm , Wendelin Werner

A comprehensive numerical study of self-avoiding walks (SAW's) on randomly diluted lattices in two and three dimensions is carried out. The critical exponents $\nu$ and $\chi$ are calculated for various different occupation probabilities,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. D. Rintoul , Jangnyeol Moon , Hisao Nakanishi

A self-avoiding walk (SAW) is a path on a graph that visits each vertex at most once. The mean square displacement of an $n$-step SAW is the expected value of the square of the distance between the ending point and the starting point of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Zhongyang Li

We work with lattice walks in $\mathbb{Z}^{r+1}$ using step set $\{\pm 1\}^{r+1}$ that finish with $x_{r+1} = 0$. We further impose conditions of avoiding backtracking (i.e. $[v,-v]$) and avoiding consecutive steps (i.e. $[v,v]$) each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-11 John Machacek

The self-avoiding walk, and lattice spin systems such as the $\varphi^4$ model, are models of interest both in mathematics and in physics. Many of their important mathematical problems remain unsolved, particularly those involving critical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Gordon Slade

We continue the enumeration of plane lattice paths avoiding the negative quadrant initiated by the first author in [Bousquet-M{\'e}lou, 2016]. We solve in detail a new case, the king walks, where all 8 nearest neighbour steps are allowed.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Mireille Bousquet-Melou , Michael Wallner

Long-distance characteristics of small-world networks have been studied by means of self-avoiding walks (SAW's). We consider networks generated by rewiring links in one- and two-dimensional regular lattices. The number of SAW's $u_n$ was…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos P. Herrero , Martha Saboya

In the past 20 years, the enumeration of plane lattice walks confined to a convex cone -- normalized into the first quadrant -- has received a lot of attention, stimulated the development of several original approaches, and led to a rich…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

We describe the scaling limit of the nearest neighbour prudent walk on the square lattice, which performs steps uniformly in directions in which it does not see sites already visited. We show that the scaling limit is given by the process…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-26 V. Beffara , S. Friedli , Y. Velenik

We have studied self-avoiding walks contained within an $L \times L$ square whose end-points can lie anywhere within, or on, the boundaries of the square. We prove that such walks behave, asymptotically, as walks crossing a square (WCAS),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Anthony J Guttmann , Iwan Jensen , Aleksander L Owczarek

We describe a new algebraic technique, utilising transfer matrices, for enumerating self-avoiding lattice trails on the square lattice. We have enumerated trails to 31 steps, and find increased evidence that trails are in the self-avoiding…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 A R Conway , A J Guttmann

We construct the two-sided infinite self-avoiding walk (SAW) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ for $d\geq5$ and use it to prove pattern theorems for the self-avoiding walk. We show that infinite two-sided SAW is the infinite-shift limit of infinite…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Maarten Markering

This is the second of two papers on the end-to-end distance of a weakly self-repelling walk on a four dimensional hierarchical lattice. It completes the proof that the expected value grows as a constant times \sqrt{T} log^{1/8}T (1+O((log…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 David C. Brydges , John Z. Imbrie