Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics Seminar: David Brydges
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Branched polymers and Mayer expansions
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The Mayer expansion is a power series expansion that has a central place in statistical mechanics. It is also full of combinatorial miracles that relate it to graphs, forests and branched polymers. I will discuss the background, the results, and some open problems.
The Mayer expansion is a power series expansion that has a central place in statistical mechanics. It is also full of combinatorial miracles that relate it to graphs, forests and branched polymers. I will discuss the background, the results, and some open problems.