A study of uniform stars using 1/d-expansions and numerical methods
D S Gaunt; T C Yu; D S Gaunt; Department of Physics, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; T C Yu; Department of Physics, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
Журнал:
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
Дата:
2000-02-25
Аннотация:
We study a lattice model of an interacting uniform self-avoiding star polymer with f branches. A 1/d -expansion for the limiting reduced free energy is derived through order 1/d for general f and, for f = 3, to order 1/d <sup>2</sup> . The terms in the expansion are independent of f and agree term by term with the corresponding expansion for interacting self-avoiding walks. We also present a miscellany of numerical results obtained by more conventional series and Monte Carlo techniques. All our results, both past and present, support the conjecture that the limiting reduced free energies of f -stars, walks and polygons are identical for all values of the interaction parameter .
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