Statistical topology.




         Statistical topology in polymers.
      Knots and Links in biopolymers.


Orlandini, E.; Tesi, M. C.,
 Knotted polygons with curvature in $Z\sp 3$.
J. Phys. A 31 (1998), no. 47, 9441--9454. (jpa31.pdf)

Tesi, Maria Carla,
 Geometrical entanglement in lattice models of ring polymers: torsion and writhe.
Numerical methods for polymeric systems (Minneapolis, MN, 1996), 83--97,
IMA Vol. Math. Appl., 102, Springer, New York, 1998. (ima102.pdf)




         Existence of thermodynamic limits in systems of random copolymers.
      Self-averaging, annealed and quenched averages.

Orlandini, E.; Tesi, M. C.; Whittington, S. G. ,
Self-averaging in the statistical mechanics of some lattice models.
J. Phys. A 35 (2002), no. 19, 4219--4227. (jpa35.pdf)



     
       Exact combinatoric models for interacting polymers.

 Orlandini, E.; Tesi, M. C.; Whittington, S. G.,
Adsorption of a directed polymer subject to an elongational force.
J. Phys. A 37 (2004), no. 5, 1535--1543.  (jpa37.pdf)


Collaborators:

Enzo Orlandini (Universita' di Padova )

Stu Whittington  (Universita' di Toronto )