Adsorption of self-avoiding walks at a defect

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Authors Nicholas R. Beaton

Publication date 28 August 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics (05-XX) Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX)

Abstract: We consider the model of self-avoiding walks on the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice interacting with a $d^{\ast }$-dimensional defect, where $1leq{d}^{\ast }<d$. Such an interaction can be attractive or repulsive, and is controlled by a Boltzmann weight $a$ associated with visits to the defect. When $d=3$ and $d^{\ast }=1$ or $2$, this can be seen as a model of long linear polymers in a good solvent, interacting with a linear filament or the interface of two liquids of different density. For all combinations of dimensions, there is a critical value $a_{mc}$ which separates the desorbed and adsorbed phases of the model. We prove that in all cases $a_{mc}=1$, confirming conjectures by a number of authors.

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