Statistical mechanics of confined polymer networks (Q2194199)

In this paper, the authors generalize the theory of the critical behaviour of \(d\)-dimensional polymer networks of arbitrary topology to the case of networks confined by hyperplanes. Multi-bridge networks are defined, where several vertices are in local bridge configurations. The authors investigate several cases of network. For general networks, the explicit expression of configurational exponents then naturally involve bulk and surface exponents for multiple random paths. In two dimensions, they describe Euclidean exponents from a unified perspective, using Schramm-Loewner Evolution in Liouville quantum gravity (LQG), and the so-called KPZ relation between Euclidean and LQG scaling dimensions.