A336492 Total number of neighbor contacts for n-step self-avoiding walks on a 2D square lattice.
0, 0, 8, 32, 152, 512, 1880, 5920, 19464, 59168, 183776, 545392, 1638400, 4778000, 14043224, 40422544, 116977176, 333346928, 953538440, 2695689520, 7642091352, 21464794032, 60417010152, 168787016352, 472315518008, 1313548558528, 3657850909680, 10133559518800
Offset: 1
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Examples
a(1) = a(2) = 0 as a 1 and 2 step walk cannot approach a previous step.
a(3) = 8. The single walk where one interaction occurs, which can be taken in eight ways on a 2D square lattice, is:
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Therefore, the total number of interactions is 1*1*8 = 8.
a(4) = 32. The four walks where one interaction occurs, each of which can be taken in eight ways on a 2D square lattice, are:
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X---+ +---+ X---+---+ X---+ +
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X---+
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Therefore, the total number of interactions is 4*1*8 = 32.
a(5) = 152. Considering only walks which start with one or more steps to the right followed by an upward step there are thirty-five different walks. Eleven of these have one neighbor contact (hence A033155(5) = 11*8 = 88) while four have two contacts. These are:
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+ X---+ X---+---+ +---+ + +
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X---+ X---+
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Therefore, the total number of contacts is (11*1 + 4*2)*8 = 152.
Links
- D. Bennett-Wood, I. G. Enting, D. S. Gaunt, A. J. Guttmann, J. L. Leask, A. L. Owczarek, and S. G. Whittington, Exact enumeration study of free energies of interacting polygons and walks in two dimensions, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31 (1998), 4725-4741.
- M. E. Fisher and B. J. Hiley, Configuration and free energy of a polymer molecule with solvent interaction, J. Chem. Phys., 34 (1961), 1253-1267.
- A. M. Nemirovsky, K. F. Freed, T. Ishinabe, and J. F. Douglas, Marriage of exact enumeration and 1/d expansion methods: lattice model of dilute polymers, J. Statist. Phys., 67 (1992), 1083-1108.
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