Directed paths in a wedge

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/47/003MaRDI QIDQ5431390zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. J. Janse van Rensburg, Andrew Rechnitzer, Thomas Prellberg

Publication date 7 December 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4337

zbMATH Keywords

directed path modelkernel methodpolymers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: Directed paths have been used extensively in the scientific literature as a model of a linear polymer. Such paths models in particular the conformational entropy of a linear polymer and the effects it has on the free energy. These directed models are simplified versions of the self-avoiding walk, but they do nevertheless give insight into the phase behaviour of a polymer, and also serve as a tool to study the effects of conformational degrees of freedom in the behaviour of a linear polymer. In this paper we examine a directed path model of a linear polymer in a confining geometry (a wedge). The main focus of our attention is $c_n$, the number of directed lattice paths of length $n$ steps which takes steps in the North-East and South-East directions and which is confined to the wedge $Y=pmX/p$, where $p$ is an integer. In this paper we examine the case $p=2$ in detail, and we determine the generating function using the iterated kernel method. We also examine the asymtotics of $c_n$. In particular, we show that ${\displaystyle }$ c_n = [0.67874...] imes 2^{n-1}(1+(-1)^n) + O((4/3^{3/4})^{n+o(n)}) + o((4/3^{3/4})^n) ${\displaystyle }$ where we can determine the constant $\mathrm{0.67874...}$ to arbitrary accuracy with little effort.

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