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1Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 79011 Lviv, Ukraine.
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : an Institute of Physics Journal
|November 14, 2013
Abstract:
The equivalence of the influence of quenched and annealed disorder on the scaling properties of long flexible polymer chains is proved by analyzing the O(m)-symmetric field theory in the polymer (de Gennes) limit m → 0. Additional symmetry properties of the model in this limit are discussed.
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