The Self-Avoiding Walk
The self-avoiding walk is a mathematical model that has important applications in statistical mechanics and polymer science. In spite of its simple definition-a path on a lattice that does not visit the same site more than once-it is difficult to analyze mathematically. The Self-Avoiding Walk provid...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2013.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
Colección: | Modern Birkhäuser Classics,
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface.- Introduction
- Scaling, polymers and spins
- Some combinatorial bounds
- Decay of the two-point function
- The lace expansion
- Above four dimensions
- Pattern theorems
- Polygons, slabs, bridges and knots
- Analysis of Monte Carlo methods
- Related Topics
- Random walk
- Proof of the renewal theorem
- Tables of exact enumerations
- Bibliography
- Notation
- Index. .