Abstract
The model of self-avoiding lattice walks and the asymptotic analysis of power-series have been two of the major research themes of Tony Guttmann. In this paper we bring the two together and perform a new analysis of the generating functions for the number of square lattice self-avoiding walks and some of their metric properties such as the mean-square end-to-end distance. The critical point x c for self-avoiding walks is known to a high degree of accuracy and we utilise this knowledge to undertake a new numerical analysis of the series using biased differential approximants. The new method is major advance in asymptotic power-series analysis in that it allows us to bias differential approximants to have a singularity of order q at x c . When biasing at x c with q ≥ 2 the analysis yields a very accurate estimate for the critical exponent γ = 1.343 7500(3) thus confirming the conjectured exact value γ = 43/32 to eight significant digits and removing a long-standing minor discrepancy between exact and numerical results. The analysis of the mean-square end-to-end distance yields thus confirming the exact value ≠ = 3/4 to seven significant digits.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 424003 |
Pages (from-to) | 424003 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Physics. A. Mathematical and Theoretical |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 42 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 Sep 2016 |
Keywords
- asymptotic series analysis
- critical exponents
- power-series expansions
- self-avoiding walks