Jan de Gier

Scientific, Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar: Jan de Gier
March 15, 2012
University of British Columbia
Abstract In 2010 Duminil-Copin and Smirnov (DCS) proved rigorously that the growth constant for self-avoiding walks on the honeycomb lattice is equal to $\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}}$, a value conjectured by Nienhuis in 1982. One of the main ingredients in DCS...