Numerical investigation of closure approximations in the selfavoiding walk problem
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 5 (3) , 411-416
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/5/3/009
Abstract
The hierarchy of equations relating the successive density functions for selfavoiding walks on a lattice are solved numerically using two closure approximations and the results are compared with the exact enumeration results of Domb.Keywords
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