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Brownian and fractional polymers with self-repulsion

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-01-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Brownian and fractional processes are useful computational tools for the modelling of physical phenomena. Here, modelling linear homopolymers in solution as Brownian or fractional processes, we develop a formalism to take into account both the interactions of the polymer with the solvent as well as the effect of arbitrary polymer-polymer potentials and Gibbs factors. As an example the average squared length is computed for a non-trivial Gaussian Gibbs factor, which is also compared with the Edwards' and a step factor.

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@article{arxiv.2408.11503,
  title  = {Brownian and fractional polymers with self-repulsion},
  author = {Samuel Eleutério and R. Vilela Mendes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11503},
  year   = {2025}
}

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