Critical exponents for random knots
Abstract
The size of a zero thickness (no excluded volume) polymer ring is shown to scale with chain length N in the same way as the size of the excluded volume (self-avoiding) linear polymer, as N, where ≈ 0.588. The consequences of that fact are examined, including sizes of trivial and non-trivial knots.
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