M Atapour et al 2009 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 322002 doi:10.1088/1751-8113/42/32/322002
Stretched polygons in a lattice tube
FREE ARTICLEM Atapour1, C E Soteros2 and S G Whittington3
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We examine the topological entanglements of polygons confined to a lattice tube and under the influence of an external tensile force f. The existence of the limiting free energy for these so-called stretched polygons is proved and then, using transfer matrix arguments, a pattern theorem for stretched polygons is proved. Note that the tube constraint allows us to prove a pattern theorem for any arbitrary value of f, while without the tube constraint it has so far only been proved for large values of f. The stretched polygon pattern theorem is used first to show that the average span per edge of a randomly chosen n-edge stretched polygon approaches a positive value, non-decreasing in f, as n → ∞. We then show that the knotting probability of an n-edge stretched polygon confined to a tube goes to one exponentially as n → ∞. Thus as n → ∞ when polygons are influenced by a force f, no matter its strength or direction, topological entanglements, as defined by knotting, occur with high probability.
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05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)
36.20.-r Macromolecules and polymer molecules
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Issue 32 (14 August 2009)
Received 29 May 2009, in final form 27 June 2009
Published 21 July 2009
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