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We study the winding angles of random and self-avoiding walks on square and cubic lattices with number of steps $N$ ranging up to $10^7$. We show that the mean square winding angle $\langle\theta^2\rangle$ of random walks converges to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-07 Yosi Hammer , Yacov Kantor

There is an extensive literature concerning self-avoiding walk on infinite graphs, but the subject is relatively undeveloped on finite graphs. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the phase transition for self-avoiding walk on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Gordon Slade

The strong interaction limit of the discrete-time weakly self-avoiding walk (or Domb--Joyce model) is trivially seen to be the usual strictly self-avoiding walk. For the continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk, the situation is more…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-20 David C. Brydges , Antoine Dahlqvist , Gordon Slade

This paper is the third in a series devoted to the development of a rigorous renormalisation group method for lattice field theories involving boson fields, fermion fields, or both. In this paper, we motivate and present a general approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Roland Bauerschmidt , David C. Brydges , Gordon Slade

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

We consider the model of self-avoiding walks on the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice interacting with a $d^*$-dimensional defect, where $1\leq d^*<d$. Such an interaction can be attractive or repulsive, and is controlled by a Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-02 Nicholas R. Beaton

We study self-avoiding walk on graphs whose automorphism group has a transitive nonunimodular subgroup. We prove that self-avoiding walk is ballistic, that the bubble diagram converges at criticality, and that the critical two-point…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Tom Hutchcroft

We prove a sufficient condition for the two-point function of a statistical mechanical model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d > 2$, to be bounded uniformly near a critical point by $|x|^{-(d-2)} \exp [ -c|x| / \xi ]$, where $\xi$ is the correlation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yucheng Liu

We consider a self-avoiding walk on the dual $\mathbb{Z}^2$ lattice. This walk can traverse the same square twice but cannot cross the same edge more than once. The weight of each square visited by the walk depends on the way the walk…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Alexander Glazman

We consider spread-out models of the self-avoiding walk and its finite-memory version, known as the memory-$\tau$ walk, which prohibits loops whose length is at most $\tau$, in dimensions $d>4$. The critical point is defined as the radius…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Noe Kawamoto

In the past decade, a lot of attention has been devoted to the enumera-tion of walks with prescribed steps confined to a convex cone. In two dimensions, this means counting walks in the first quadrant of the plane (possibly after a linear…

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

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

We present simulations of self-avoiding random walks on 2-d lattices with the topology of an infinitely long cylinder, in the limit where the cylinder circumference L is much smaller than the Flory radius. We study in particular the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Helge Frauenkron , Maria Serena Causo , Peter Grassberger

Recently, Duminil-Copin and Smirnov proved a long-standing conjecture by Nienhuis that the connective constant of self-avoiding walks on the honeycomb lattice is $\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}}.$ A key identity used in that proof depends on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas R Beaton , Anthony J Guttmann , Iwan Jensen

We consider a self-avoiding walk on the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice, terminally attached to an impenetrable hyperplane at which it can adsorb. When a force is applied the walk can be pulled off the surface and we consider the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 EJ Janse van Rensburg , SG Whittington

The main result of this paper is a general central limit theorem for distributions defined by certain renewal type equations. We apply this to weakly self-avoiding random walks. We give good error estimates and Gaussian tail estimates which…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erwin Bolthausen , Christine Ritzmann

We use the recently conjectured exact $S$-matrix of the massive ${\rm O}(n)$ model to derive its form factors and ground state energy. This information is then used in the limit $n\to0$ to obtain quantitative results for various universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 John Cardy , G. Mussardo

A two-dimensional square-lattice model for the formation of secondary structures in proteins, the hydrogen-bonding model, is extended to include the effects of solvent quality. This is achieved by allowing configuration-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 D P Foster , C Pinettes

We have analysed the recently extended series for the number of self-avoiding walks (SAWs) $C_L(1)$ that cross an $L \times L$ square between diagonally opposed corners. The number of such walks is known to grow as $\lambda_S^{L^2}.$ We…

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

We give exact relations for a number of amplitude combinations that occur in the study of self-avoiding walks, polygons and lattice trails. In particular, we elucidate the lattice-dependent factors which occur in those combinations which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 John L. Cardy , Anthony J. Guttmann