The generation of random equilateral polygons

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0164-4zbMATH Open1222.82069OpenAlexW2134827800MaRDI QIDQ537896FDOQ537896

Authors: Sotero Alvarado, Jorge Alberto Calvo, Kenneth C. Millett 

Publication date: 23 May 2011

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-011-0164-4

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo methodknot spaceGrankshaft rotationsHedgehog methodPivot methodpolygonal foldingprobability of knottingtriangle method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32)

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Uses Software

• KnotPlot
• Mathematica

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