Lectures on self-avoiding walks

zbMATH Open1317.60125arXiv1206.2092MaRDI QIDQ5501410FDOQ5501410

Authors: Roland Bauerschmidt, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Jesse Goodman, Gordon Slade 

Publication date: 3 August 2015

Abstract: These lecture notes provide a rapid introduction to a number of rigorous results on self-avoiding walks, with emphasis on the critical behaviour. Following an introductory overview of the central problems, an account is given of the Hammersley--Welsh bound on the number of self-avoiding walks and its consequences for the growth rates of bridges and self-avoiding polygons. A detailed proof that the connective constant on the hexagonal lattice equals $sqrt2+sqrt2$ is then provided. The lace expansion for self-avoiding walks is described, and its use in understanding the critical behaviour in dimensions $d>4$ is discussed. Functional integral representations of the self-avoiding walk model are discussed and developed, and their use in a renormalisation group analysis in dimension 4 is sketched. Problems and solutions from tutorials are included.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2092

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67)

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