Winding-Angle Distributions of Two-Dimensional Self-Avoiding Walks from Conformal Invariance
- 6 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 60 (23) , 2343-2346
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.2343
Abstract
We derive the exact probability distribution of the winding angle of a two-dimensional self-avoiding walk around its extremities, using Coulomb-gas techniques and conformal invariance. This gives a first example of an exact full distribution in critical geometrical models. It is extended to dense and self-avoiding walks.
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