Characteristic length of random knotting for cylindrical self-avoiding polygons

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00545-4MaRDI QIDQ1580612zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miyuki K. Shimamura, Tetsuo Deguchi

Publication date 26 September 2000

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008268

zbMATH Keywords

exponential functionnumerical solutionDNApolymerscharacteristic lengthchain thicknesscylinder radiuscylindrical self-avoiding polygons modelrandom knotting lengthrandom knotting probabilityunit length cylinders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Abstract: We discuss the probability of random knotting for a model of self-avoiding polygons whose segments are given by cylinders of unit length with radius $r$. We show numerically that the characteristic length of random knotting is roughly approximated by an exponential function of the chain thickness $r$.

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