The Flory scaling conjecture for the barycentric excluded-volume random walk

Let (Wn,Gn)(W_n,G_n) be the barycentric excluded-volume random walk described in the paper, with WnR2W_n\in\mathbb R^2 its position, and let \|\cdot\| denote Euclidean norm. Let Θ\Theta be a uniform random unit vector. Flory scaling conjecture. Almost surely,

limnlogWnlogn=34,limnWnWn=Θ.\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log\|W_n\|}{\log n}=\frac34, \qquad \lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{W_n}{\|W_n\|}=\Theta.

The conjecture predicts anomalous, superdiffusive behaviour with scale exponent 3/43/4, motivated by the Flory exponent for planar self-avoiding walks. The paper reports heuristic and numerical evidence, but rigorous analysis of this model remains open.

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Conrado da Costa, Mikhail Menshikov, Vadim Shcherbakov and Andrew Wade, “Superdiffusive planar random walks with polynomial space-time drifts”, arXiv:2401.07813 (2024).

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