Statistics of the true self-avoiding walk in one dimension

Abstract
Numerical results of a Monte Carlo study for the true self-avoiding walk in one dimension are presented. For any positive value of the strength parameter (0N and the range SN of the walk are characterised by two universal exponents nu =2/3+or-0.003 and s=2/3+or-0.01 respectively. For negative g (self-attracting walk) both RN and SN exhibit a saturation effect: limN to infinity RN=Rinfinity (g) and limN to infinity SN=Sinfinity (g) with Rinfinity (g) approximately (-g)-1 and Sinfinity (g) approximately (-g)-1 at g<or approximately=0. A simple scaling analysis in N and g is proposed and found to be consistent with the Monte Carlo results.

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