On the connection of the generalized nonlinear sigma model with constrained stochastic dynamics

Details On the connection of the generalized nonlinear sigma model with constrained stochastic dynamics On the connection of the generalized nonlinear sigma model with constrained stochastic dynamics

2008-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3600v1

J.Phys.A42:145002,2009

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

LaTeX+RevTeX, 12 pages, no figures

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10.1088/1751-8113/42/14/145002

The dynamics of a freely jointed chain in the continuous limit is described by a field theory which closely resembles the nonlinear sigma model. The generating functional $\Psi[J]$ of this field theory contains nonholonomic constraints, which are imposed by inserting in the path integral expressing $\Psi[J]$ a suitable product of delta functions. The same procedure is commonly applied in statistical mechanics in order to enforce topological conditions on a system of linked polymers. The disadvantage of this method is that the contact with the stochastic process governing the diffusion of the chain is apparently lost. The main goal of this work is to reestablish this contact. To this purpose, it is shown here that the generating functional $\Psi[J]$ coincides with the generating functional of the correlation functions of the solutions of a constrained Langevin equation. In the discrete case, this Langevin equation describes as expected the Brownian motion of beads connected together by links of fixed length.

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