The statistical mechanics of interacting walks, polygons, animals, and vesicles /

This is an account of the theory and mathematical approaches in polymer entropy, with particular emphasis on mathematical approaches to directed and undirected lattice models. Results in the scaling and critical behaviour of models of directed and undirected models of self-avoiding walks, paths, pol...

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Main Author: Van Rensburg, E. J. Janse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Oxford lecture series in mathematics and its applications.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This is an account of the theory and mathematical approaches in polymer entropy, with particular emphasis on mathematical approaches to directed and undirected lattice models. Results in the scaling and critical behaviour of models of directed and undirected models of self-avoiding walks, paths, polygons, animals and networks are presented. The general theory of tricritical scaling is reviewed in the context of models of lattice clusters, and the existence of a thermodynamic limit in these models is discussed in general and for particular models.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 625 pages :) illustrations (some color).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-617) and index.
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