Meanders: A Direct Enumeration Approach

Details Meanders: A Direct Enumeration Approach Meanders: A Direct Enumeration Approach

1996-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607039v1

Nucl.Phys. B482 (1996) 497-535

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

uses harvmac (l), epsf, 16 figs included, uuencoded, tar compressed

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00505-6

We study the statistics of semi-meanders, i.e. configurations of a set of roads crossing a river through n bridges, and possibly winding around its source, as a toy model for compact folding of polymers. By analyzing the results of a direct enumeration up to n=29, we perform on the one hand a large n extrapolation and on the other hand we reformulate the available data into a large q expansion, where q is a weight attached to each road. We predict a transition at q=2 between a low-q regime with irrelevant winding, and a large-q regime with relevant winding.

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