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Bounds on Multiple Self-avoiding Polygons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
A self-avoiding polygon is a lattice polygon consisting of a closed self-avoiding walk on a square lattice. Surprisingly little is known rigorously about the enumeration of self-avoiding polygons, although there are numerous conjectures that are believed to be true and strongly supported by numerical simulations. As an analogous problemto this study, we considermultiple self-avoiding polygons in a confined region as a model for multiple ring polymers in physics. We find rigorous lower and upper bounds for the number ${{p}_{m\times n}}$ of distinct multiple self-avoiding polygons in the $m\,\times \,n$ rectangular grid on the square lattice. For $m\,=\,2,\,{{p}_{2\times n}}\,=\,{{2}^{n-1}}\,-1$. And for integers $m,\,n\,\ge \,3$,
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