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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451129703321

Autore

Giacomin Giambattista

Titolo

Random polymer models [[electronic resource] /] / Giambattista Giacomin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-12068-5

9786611120689

1-86094-829-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Classificazione

31.70

31.80

35.80

Disciplina

518.28

Soggetti

Statistical mechanics - Mathematical models

Polymers - Mathematical models

Polymeren

Wiskundige modellen

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; Appendix C Effective Interface Models; 1. Random Polymer Models and their Applications; 2. The Homogeneous Pinning Model; 3. Weakly Inhomogeneous Models; 4. The Free Energy of Disordered Polymer Chains; 5. Disordered Pinning Models: The Phase Diagram; 6. Disordered Copolymers and Selective Interfaces: The Phase Diagram; 7. The Localized Phase of Disordered Polymers; 8. The Delocalized Phase of Disordered Polymers; 9. Numerical Algorithms and Computations; Appendix A Mathematical Tools; Appendix B Some Technical Estimates; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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