Scaling of linking and writhing numbers for spherically confined and topologically equilibrated flexible polymers

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0172-4MaRDI QIDQ540580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John F. Marko

Publication date 3 June 2011

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

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3115200

zbMATH Keywords

confined polymerspolymer topologychromosome structurechromosome topologypolymer statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Recommendations

• The linking number and the writhe of uniform random walks and polygons in confined spaces
• Tops and writhing DNA
• The growth of the mean average crossing number of equilateral polygons in confinement
• On the topology of a polymer ring
• Path integral calculation of the writhe for circular semiflexible polymers

Cites work

• Gauge theory of topological entanglements. I: General theory.
• Gauge theory of topological entanglements. II: A. pair of fluctuating chains.
• Second topological moment \(\langle m^2\rangle \) of two closed entangled polymers
• Self-avoiding walks with writhe
• Statistical topology of closed curves: some applications in polymer physics
• The Writhing Number of a Space Curve
• The direct link model for polymer rings using topological field theory and the second topological moment in dense systems.
• The linking number and the writhe of uniform random walks and polygons in confined spaces

Cited in

(3)

• Exploring the correlation between the folding rates of proteins and the entanglement of their native states
• From constrained stochastic processes to the nonlinear sigma model. Two old problems revisited
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7622586 (Why is no real title available?)

This page was built for publication: Scaling of linking and writhing numbers for spherically confined and topologically equilibrated flexible polymers

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q540580)