Self-avoiding walks with writhe

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00601-9zbMATH Open0925.82103arXivcond-mat/9705066MaRDI QIDQ1371640FDOQ1371640

Authors: J. David Moroz, Randall D. Kamien 

Publication date: 29 October 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We map self-avoiding random walks with a chemical potential for writhe to the three-dimensional complex O(N) Chern-Simons theory as N -> 0. We argue that at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point which characterizes normal self-avoiding walks (with radius of gyration exponent nu = 0.588) a small chemical potential for writhe is irrelevant and the Chern-Simons field does not modify the monomer- monomer correlation function. For a large chemical potential the polymer collapses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705066

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zbMATH Keywords

biomolecules3D complex O(N) Chern Simons theoryWilson Fisher fixed point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

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