The critical fugacity for surface adsorption of self-avoiding walks on the honeycomb lattice is 1+2

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-1896-1MaRDI QIDQ2447577zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicholas R. Beaton, Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Anthony J Guttmann, Jan de Gier

Publication date 28 April 2014

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0358

zbMATH Keywords

critical surface fugacityhoneycombself-avoiding walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: In 2010, Duminil-Copin and Smirnov proved a long-standing conjecture of Nienhuis, made in 1982, that the growth constant of self-avoiding walks on the hexagonal (a.k.a. honeycomb) lattice is $mu=sqrt2+sqrt2.$ A key identity used in that proof was later generalised by Smirnov so as to apply to a general O(n) loop model with $nin[-2,2]$ (the case $n=0$ corresponding to SAWs). We modify this model by restricting to a half-plane and introducing a surface fugacity $y$ associated with boundary sites (also called surface sites), and obtain a generalisation of Smirnov's identity. The critical value of the surface fugacity was conjectured by Batchelor and Yung in 1995 to be $y_{mc}=1+2/sqrt2-n.$ This value plays a crucial role in our generalized identity, just as the value of growth constant did in Smirnov's identity. For the case $n=0$, corresponding to saws interacting with a surface, we prove the conjectured value of the critical surface fugacity. A crucial part of the proof involves demonstrating that the generating function of self-avoiding bridges of height $T$, taken at its critical point $1/mu$, tends to 0 as $T$ increases, as predicted from SLE theory.

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