SPIRALLING SELF-AVOIDING WALKS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Self-avoiding walks which only step straight ahead or to the left are studied. Heuristic arguments, generating function studies, and extrapolation of few-step enumerations are described. Exact asymptotic results are obtained. It is found that these spiralling walks are in new 'universality class', wherein the number of n-step walks does not behave in a 'size-extensive' manner.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL

author list (cited authors)

  • KLEIN, D. J., HITE, G. E., SCHMALZ, T. G., & SEITZ, W. A.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • KLEIN, DJ||HITE, GE||SCHMALZ, TG||SEITZ, WA

publication date

  • March 1984