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Introduction

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNMECOLE,volume 1974)

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A polymer is a large molecule consisting of monomers that are tied together by chemical bonds. The monomers can be either small units (such as CH2 in polyethylene; see Fig. 1.1) or larger units with an internal structure (such as the adenine-thymine and cytosine-guanine base pairs in the DNA double helix; see Fig. 1.2). Polymers abound in nature because of the multivalency of atoms like carbon, silicon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus, which are capable of forming long concatenated structures.

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  • Random Environment
  • Dyck Path
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Hollander, F.d. (2009). Introduction. In: Random Polymers. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 1974. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00333-2_1

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