Conformal Spectra of Polymers on a Random Surface

Aug 11, 1988
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 1433
Report number:
  • SACLAY-PhT/88-119

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Abstract: (APS)
We consider polymers (self-avoiding walks) on a randomly triangulated planar surface. The partition function of L polymer lines tied by their extremities, in a fluctuating metric, is calculated exactly. The exact infinite conformal spectra so derived are in complete agreement with the exponents found recently for 2D quantum gravity by Knizhnik, Polyakov, and Zamolodchikov.
  • STATISTICAL MECHANICS: RANDOM SURFACE
  • STATISTICAL MECHANICS: PARTITION FUNCTION
  • STATISTICAL MECHANICS: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • MODEL: POLYMER
  • INVARIANCE: CONFORMAL
  • QUANTUM GRAVITY: TWO-DIMENSIONAL
  • MODEL: STRING
  • LATTICE: RANDOM