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Topology and Geometry in Polymer Science /

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This book contains contributions from a workshop on topology and geometry of polymers, held at the IMA in June 1996, which brought together topologists, combinatorialists, theoretical physicists and polymer scientists, with a common interest in polymer topology. Polymers can be highly self-entangled...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whittington, Stuart G.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sumners, Witt, Lodge, Timothy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1998.
Series:IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications ; 103.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Combinatorial analysis.
Topology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Entanglement Complexity of Polymers: Entanglements of polymers. Entropic exponents of knotted lattice polygons. The torsion of three-dimensional random walk
  • Knot Energies: Self-repelling knots and local energy minima. Properties of knot energies. Energy and thickness of knots. On distortion and thickness of knots. Random Linking: Percolation of linked circles. Minimal links in the cubic lattice. Effect of Geometrical Constraints. Knots in graphs in subsets of Z3. Topological entanglement complexity of polymer chains in confined geometries. Surfaces and Vesicles: Survey of self-avoiding random surfaces on cubic lattices. Issues, controversies, and results. Computational methods in random.