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Building on a work by Alm, we consider a model of weighted self-avoiding walks on a lattice and develop a method for computing upper bounds on the corresponding weighted connective constant, which we implement in a publicly available…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Qidong He

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 examine self-avoiding walks in dimensions 4 to 8 using high-precision Monte-Carlo simulations up to length N=16384, providing the first such results in dimensions $d > 4$ on which we concentrate our analysis. We analyse the scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aleksander L. Owczarek , Thomas Prellberg

We derive the nested Bethe Ansatz solution of the fully packed O($n$) loop model on the honeycomb lattice. From this solution we derive the bulk free energy per site along with the central charge and geometric scaling dimensions describing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. T. Batchelor , J. Suzuki , C. M. Yung

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 calculate exponential growth constants describing the asymptotic behavior of several quantities enumerating classes of orientations of arrow variables on the bonds of several types of directed lattice strip graphs $G$ of finite width and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-28 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

We infer upper and lower bounds on the exponential growth constants $\alpha(\Lambda)$, $\alpha_0(\Lambda)$, and $\beta(\Lambda)$ describing the large-$n$ behavior of, respectively, the number of acyclic orientations, acyclic orientations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-09 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

Despite its elementary definition, the self-avoiding walk (SAW) poses notoriously hard enumerative problems: exact connective constants are known for only a handful of infinite graphs, notably the honeycomb lattice \cite{ds}. We establish a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Benjamin Grant , Zhongyang Li

The partition function of the O(n) loop model on the honeycomb lattice is mapped to that of the O(n) loop model on the 3-12 lattice. Both models share the same operator content and thus critical exponents. The critical points are related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. T. Batchelor

We compute the exponent gamma for self-avoiding walks in three dimensions. We get gamma = 1.1575 +- 0.0006 in agreement with renormalization-group predictions. Earlier Monte Carlo and exact-enumeration determinations are now seen to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergio Caracciolo , Maria Serena Causo , Andrea Pelissetto

We implement a scale-free version of the pivot algorithm and use it to sample pairs of three-dimensional self-avoiding walks, for the purpose of efficiently calculating an observable that corresponds to the probability that pairs of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Nathan Clisby

The growth exponent $\alpha$ for loop-erased or Laplacian random walk on the integer lattice is defined by saying that the expected time to reach the sphere of radius $n$ is of order $n^\alpha$. We prove that in two dimensions, the growth…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gregory F. Lawler

A growing self-avoiding walk (GSAW) is a stochastic process that starts from the origin on a lattice and grows by occupying an unoccupied adjacent lattice site at random. A sufficiently long GSAW will reach a state in which all adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Alexander R. Klotz , Everett Sullivan

We define a new family of self-avoiding walks (SAW) on the square lattice, called weakly directed walks. These walks have a simple characterization in terms of the irreducible bridges that compose them. We determine their generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Axel Bacher , Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

Let $c_n = c_n(d)$ denote the number of self-avoiding walks of length $n$ starting at the origin in the Euclidean nearest-neighbour lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$. Let $\mu = \lim_n c_n^{1/n}$ denote the connective constant of $\mathbb{Z}^d$. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Hugo Duminil-Copin , Shirshendu Ganguly , Alan Hammond , Ioan Manolescu

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

The connective constant $\mu(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the asymptotic growth rate of the number $\sigma_{n}$ of self-avoiding walks of length $n$ in $G$ from a given vertex. We prove a formula for the connective constant for free products of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Lorenz A. Gilch , Sebastian Müller

We introduce an efficient nonreversible Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm to generate self-avoiding walks with a variable endpoint. In two dimensions, the new algorithm slightly outperforms the two-move nonreversible Berretti-Sokal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-13 Hanqing Zhao , Marija Vucelja

In [BEI] we introduced a Levy process on a hierarchical lattice which is four dimensional, in the sense that the Green's function for the process equals 1/x^2. If the process is modified so as to be weakly self-repelling, it was shown that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David C. Brydges , John Z. Imbrie

The smart kinetic self-avoiding walk (SKSAW) is a random walk which never intersects itself and grows forever when run in the full-plane. At each time step the walk chooses the next step uniformly from among the allowable nearest neighbors…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Tom Kennedy