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Random Polymer Models

By Giambattista Giacomin

Book information

Publisher
Imperial College Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1-86094-786-7, 978-1-86094-786-5
Open Library ID
OL12055608M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1658807 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
260\259
Topic
Chemistry
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13
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Description

This volume introduces readers to the world of disordered systems and to some of the remarkable probabilistic techniques developed in the field. The author explores in depth a class of directed polymer models to which much attention has been devoted in the last 25 years, in particular in the fields of physical and biological sciences. The models treated have been widely used in studying, for example, the phenomena of polymer pinning on a defect line, the behavior of copolymers in proximity to an interface between selective solvents and the DNA denaturation transition. In spite of the apparent heterogeneity of this list, in mathematical terms, a unified vision emerges. One is in fact dealing with the natural statistical mechanics systems built on classical renewal sequences by introducing one-body potentials.

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