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Collapse transition of the interacting prudent walk

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This article is dedicated to the study of the 2-dimensional interacting prudent self-avoiding walk (referred to by the acronym IPSAW) and in particular to its collapse transition. The interaction intensity is denoted by β > 0 and the set of trajectories consists of those self-avoiding paths respecting the prudent condition, which means that they do not take a step towards a previously visited lattice site. The IPSAW interpolates between the interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk (IPDSAW) that was analyzed in details in, e.g., Zwanzig and Lauritzen (1968), Brak et al. (1992), Carmona et al. (2016) and Nguyen and Pétrélis (2013), and the interacting self-avoiding walk (ISAW) for which the collapse transition was conjectured in Saleur (1986). Three main theorems are proven. We show first that IPSAW undergoes a collapse transition at finite temperature and, up to our knowledge, there was so far no proof in the literature of the existence of a collapse transition for a non-directed model built with self-avoiding path. We also prove that the free energy of IPSAW is equal to that of a restricted version of IPSAW, i.e., the interacting two-sided prudent walk. Such free energy is computed by considering only those prudent path with a general northeast orientation. As a by-product of this result we obtain that the exponential growth rate of generic prudent paths equals that of two-sided prudent paths and this answers an open problem raised in e.g., Bousquet-Mélou (2010) or Dethridge and Guttmann (2008). Finally we show that, for every β > 0, the free energy of ISAW itself is always larger than β and this rules out a possible self-touching saturation of ISAW in its conjectured collapsed phase.
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hal-01387037 , version 1 (25-10-2016)

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Nicolas Pétrélis, Torri Niccolo. Collapse transition of the interacting prudent walk. Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré (D) Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions, 2018, 5, pp.387-435. ⟨hal-01387037⟩
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