Topological entanglement of polymers and Chern-Simons field theory
Franco Ferrari; Ignazio Lazzizzera; Franco Ferrari; INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Italy; Ignazio Lazzizzera; INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Italy
Журнал:
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
Дата:
1999-02-26
Аннотация:
In recent times some interesting field-theoretical descriptions of the statistical mechanics of entangling polymers have been proposed by various authors. In these approaches, a single test polymer fluctuating in a background of static polymers or in a lattice of obstacles is considered. The extension to the case in which the configurations of two or more polymers become non-static is not straightforward unless their trajectories are severely constrained. In this paper we present another approach, based on Chern-Simons field theory, which is able to describe the topological entanglements of two fluctuating polymers in terms of gauge fields and second quantized replica fields.
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