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New scaling laws for self-avoiding walks: bridges and worms

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We show how the theory of the critical behaviour of $d$-dimensional polymer networks gives a scaling relation for self-avoiding {\em bridges} that relates the critical exponent for bridges $\gamma_b$ to… Click to show full abstract

We show how the theory of the critical behaviour of $d$-dimensional polymer networks gives a scaling relation for self-avoiding {\em bridges} that relates the critical exponent for bridges $\gamma_b$ to that of terminally-attached self-avoiding arches, $\gamma_{1,1},$ and the {correlation} length exponent $\nu.$ We find $\gamma_b = \gamma_{1,1}+\nu.$ We provide compelling numerical evidence for this result in both two- and three-dimensions. Another subset of SAWs, called {\em worms}, are defined as the subset of SAWs whose origin and end-point have the same $x$-coordinate. We give a scaling relation for the corresponding critical exponent $\gamma_w,$ which is $\gamma_w=\gamma-\nu.$ This too is supported by enumerative results in the two-dimensional case.

Keywords: laws self; new scaling; self avoiding; scaling laws; gamma gamma; gamma

Journal Title: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Year Published: 2019

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