Critical exponents of plane meanders

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/21/101MaRDI QIDQ4489894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors I. Jensen, Anthony J Guttmann

Publication date 11 July 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0004321

zbMATH Keywords

critical exponentcritical pointenumerationplane meanders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs (05C45) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: Meanders form a set of combinatorial problems concerned with the enumeration of self-avoiding loops crossing a line through a given number of points, $n$. Meanders are considered distinct up to any smooth deformation leaving the line fixed. We use a recently developed algorithm, based on transfer matrix methods, to enumerate plane meanders. This allows us to calculate the number of closed meanders up to $n=48$, the number of open meanders up to $n=43$, and the number of semi-meanders up to $n=45$. The analysis of the series yields accurate estimates of both the critical point and critical exponent, and shows that a recent conjecture for the exact value of the semi-meander critical exponent is unlikely to be correct, while the conjectured exponent value for closed and open meanders is not inconsistent with the results from the analysis.

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