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A new strategy to microscopic modelling of topological entanglement in polymers based on field theory
Franco Ferrari
In this work a new strategy is proposed in order to build analytic and microscopic models of fluctuating polymer rings subjected to topological constraints. The topological invaria…
The topological effect on the Mechanical properties of polymer knots
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
The mechanical properties of polymer knots under stretching in a bad or good solvent are investigated by applying a given force to a point of the knot while keeping another poi…
A Topological Field Theory for the triple Milnor linking coefficient
Franco Ferrari, Marcin R. Piatek, Yani Zhao
The subject of this work is a three-dimensional topological field theory with a non-semisimple group of gauge symmetry with observables consisting in the holonomies of connections…
On a field theoretical model of polymeric plats and some of its consequences
Franco Ferrari, Jarosław Paturej, Marcin Piątek +1
The field theory approach to the statistical mechanics of a system of N polymer rings linked together is generalized to the case of links that have a fixed number of maxima an…
Ring polymers with topological constraints
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
In the first part of this work a summary is provided of some recent experiments and theoretical results which are relevant in the research of systems of polymer rings in nontrivial…
Monte Carlo Computation of the Vassiliev knot invariant of degree 2 in the integral representation
Franco Ferrari, Yani Zhao
In mathematics there is a wide class of knot invariants that may be expressed in the form of multiple line integrals computed along the trajectory C describing the spatial conforma…