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TMF, 2017 Volume 191, Number 1, Pages 100–115 (Mi tmf9154)

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Canonical ensemble of particles in a self-avoiding random walk

V. I. Alkhimov

Information Technology Faculty, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We consider an ensemble of particles not interacting with each other and randomly walking in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d$. The individual moves of each particle are governed by the same distribution, but after the completion of each such move of a particle, its position in the medium is "marked" as a region in the form of a ball of diameter $r_0$, which is not available for subsequent visits by this particle. As a result, we obtain the corresponding ensemble in $\mathbb R^d$ of marked trajectories in each of which the distance between the centers of any pair of these balls is greater than $r_0$. We describe a method for computing the asymptotic form of the probability density $W_n(\mathbf r)$ of the distance $r$ between the centers of the initial and final balls of a trajectory consisting of $n$ individual moves of a particle of the ensemble. The number $n$, the trajectory modulus, is a random variable in this model in addition to the distance $r$. This makes it necessary to determine the distribution of $n$, for which we use the canonical distribution obtained from the most probable distribution of particles in the ensemble over the moduli of their trajectories. Averaging the density $W_n(\mathbf r)$ over the canonical distribution of the modulus $n$ allows finding the asymptotic behavior of the probability density of the distance $r$ between the ends of the paths of the canonical ensemble of particles in a self-avoiding random walk in $\mathbb R^d$ for $2\le d<4$.

Keywords: canonical ensemble, self-avoiding random walk, constitutive equation, renormalization group, saddle-point method, asymptotic distribution.

Received: 25.01.2016
Revised: 14.02.2016

DOI: 10.4213/tmf9154


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2017, 191:1, 558–571

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