Topology and Geometry in Polymer Science: 103 - Brossura

Libro 3 di 49: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications
 
9781461272526: Topology and Geometry in Polymer Science: 103

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This book contains contributions from a workshop on topology and geometry of polymers, held at the IMA in June 1996, which brought together topologists, combinatorialists, theoretical physicists and polymer scientists, with a common interest in polymer topology. It is of interest to workers in polymer statistical mechanics but will also be useful as an introduction to topological methods for polymer scientists, and will introduce mathematicians to an area of science where topological approaches are making a substantial contribution.

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Contenuti

1. Entanglement Complexity of Polymers.- Entanglements of polymers.- Entropic exponents of knotted lattice polygons.- The torsion of three-dimensional random walk.- 2. Knot Energies.- Self-repelling knots and local energy minima.- Properties of knot energies.- Energy and thickness of knots.- On distortion and thickness of knots.- 3. Random Linking.- Percolation of linked circles.- Minimal links in the cubic lattice.- 4. Effect of Geometrical Constraints.- Knots in graphs in subsets of Z3.- Topological entanglement complexity of polymer chains in confined geometries.- 5. Surfaces and Vesicles.- Survey of self-avoiding random surfaces on cubic lattices: Issues, controversies, and results.- Computational methods in random surface simulation.- A model of lattice vesicles.

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ISBN 10:  0387985808 ISBN 13:  9780387985800
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1998
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