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Springer Random Polymers Ecole DEte De Probabilites De Saint-Flour Xxxvii - 2007 2009 Edition by Frank den Hollander
Polymer chains that interact with themselves and/or with their environment are fascinating objects displaying a range of interesting physical and chemical phenomena. The focus in this monograph is on the mathematical description of some of these phenomena with particular emphasis on phase transitions as a function of interaction parameters associated critical behavior and space-time scaling. Topics include: self-repellent polymers self-attracting polymers polymers interacting with interfaces charged polymers copolymers near linear or random selective interfaces polymers interacting with random substrate and directed polymers in random environment. Different techniques are exposed including the method of local times large deviations the lace expansion generating functions the method of excursions ergodic theory partial annealing estimates coarse-graining techniques and martingales. Thus this monograph offers a mathematical panorama of polymer chains which even today holds plenty of challenges. Table of contents : Polymers with Self-Interaction.- Soft Polymers in Low Dimension.- Soft Polymers in High Dimension.- Elastic Polymers.- Polymer Collapse.- Polymer Adsorption.- Polymers in Random Environment.- Charged Polymers.- Copolymers near a Linear Selective Interface.- Copolymers near a Random Selective Interface.- Random Pinning and Wetting of Polymers.- Polymers in a Random Potential.- Two Basic Models.