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We consider a transmission problem on a polygonal partition for the two-dimensional conductivity equation. For suitable classes of partitions we establish the exact behaviour of the gradient of solutions in a neighbourhood of the vertexes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Elena Beretta , Elisa Francini , Sergio Vessella

We study the path properties of a random polymer attracted to a defect line by a potential with disorder, and we prove that in the delocalized regime, at any temperature, the number of contacts with the defect line remains in a certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Kenneth S. Alexander , Nikos Zygouras

Saturated random sequential adsorption packings built of two-dimensional ellipses, spherocylinders, rectangles, and dimers placed on a one-dimensional line are studied to check analytical prediction concerning packing growth kinetics [A.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Michał Cieśla , Konrad Kozubek , Piotr Kubala , Adrian Baule

The explicit expression for the two-time free energy distribution function in one-dimensional directed polymers in random potential is derived in terms of the Bethe ansatz replica technique by mapping the replicated problem to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-12 Victor Dotsenko

We calculate exactly the first cumulants of the free energy of a directed polymer in a random medium for the geometry of a cylinder. By using the fact that the n-th moment <Z^n> of the partition function is given by the ground state energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

In this article, we try to give a rather complete picture of the behavior of the free energy for a model of directed polymer in a random environment, in which the polymer is a simple symmetric random walk on the lattice $\Z^d$, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-02-25 David Marquez-Carreras , Carles Rovira , Samy Tindel

Entropy-driven directed translocation of a flexible polymer through a cone-shaped channel is studied theoretically and using computer simulation. For a given length of the channel, the effective force of entropic origin acting on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Narges Nikoofard , Hamidreza Khalilian , Hossein Fazli

A discrete conformality for polyhedral metrics on surfaces is introduced in this paper which generalizes earlier work on the subject. It is shown that each polyhedral metric on a surface is discrete conformal to a constant curvature…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

We consider a flip dynamics for directed (1+d)-dimensional lattice paths with length L. The model can be interpreted as a higher dimensional version of the simple exclusion process, the latter corresponding to the case d=1. We prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Pietro Caputo , Julien Sohier

Polymer chains dissolved in a solvent take random conformations due to large internal degrees of freedom and are characterized geometrically by their average shape and size. The diffusive dynamics of such large macromolecules play an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-11 Prabeen Kumar Pattnayak , Aloke Kumar , Gaurav Tomar

Lattice model of directed self avoiding walk is used to investigate adsorption properties of a semiflexible sequential copolymer chain on an impenetrable curved surface on a hexagonal lattice in two dimensions. Walks of the copolymer chains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-02 Pramod Kumar Mishra

We prove universality of Tracy-Widom GUE fluctuations for directed polymers in $1+1$ dimensions in the intermediate disorder regime. Building on the Lindeberg replacement method of arXiv:2304.04871, we refine estimates for the measure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Pranay Agarwal

We write exact equations for the thermodynamic properties of a linear polymer molecule confined to walk on a lattice of finite size. The dimension of the space in which the lattice resides can be arbitrary. We also calculate polymer…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Esdmund A. Di Marzio , Charles M. Guttman

We study the shape differentiability of a general functional depending on the solution of a bidimensional stationary Stokes-Elasticity system, with respect to the reference domain of the elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 V. Calisti , I. Lucardesi , J. -F. Scheid

We consider directed weighted graphs and define various families of path counting functions. Our main results are explicit formulas for the main term of the asymptotic growth rate of these counting functions, under some irrationality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Avner Kiro , Yotam Smilansky , Uzy Smilansky

We study a Dirichlet problem for the heat equation in a domain containing an interior hole. The domain has a fixed outer boundary and a variable inner boundary determined by a diffeomorphism $\phi$. We analyze the maps that assign to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Matteo Dalla Riva , Paolo Luzzini , Paolo Musolino

In this paper we introduce the topological state derivative for general topological dilatations and explore its relation to standard optimal control theory. We show that for a class of partial differential equations, the shape dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Phillip Baumann , Idriss Mazari-Fouquer , Kevin Sturm

We prove that in the full $L^2$-regime the partition function of the directed polymer model in dimensions $d\geq 3$, if centered, scaled and averaged with respect to a test function $\varphi \in C_c(\mathbb{R}^d)$, converges in distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Dimitris Lygkonis , Nikos Zygouras

The effects of two types of randomness on the behaviour of directed polymers are discussed in this chapter. The first part deals with the effect of randomness in medium so that a directed polymer feels a random external potential. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

We introduce a random walk in random environment associated to an underlying directed polymer model in $1+1$ dimensions. This walk is the positive temperature counterpart of the competition interface of percolation and arises as the limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Nicos Georgiou , Firas Rassoul-Agha , Timo Seppäläinen , Atilla Yilmaz