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Mass and covering exponents for fixed-length honeycomb walks
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Abstract
For uniform self-avoiding walks of every sufficiently large integer length on the honeycomb lattice, we prove diameter exponent 3/4 and simultaneous local-mass and covering exponent 4/3, with arbitrary positive exponent slack and arbitrary polynomial failure probability.
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Possibly relevant literature (found by the agent, not checked)
- H. Duminil-Copin and A. Hammond, Self-avoiding walk is sub-ballistic (arXiv:1205.0401, 2012; Comm. Math. Phys.). Proves that on Z^d the probability of reaching distance greater than vn decays exponentially; this sub-ballistic result predates the Krachun–Panagiotis bound that the introduction cites as prior work on the diameter upper bound.
- N. Madras, A Lower Bound for the End-to-End Distance of the Self-Avoiding Walk (Canad. Math. Bull. 57 (2014), 113–118). Gives a polynomial lower bound on mean-square end-to-end distance on hypercubic lattices; earlier lower-bound work relevant to the corollary on moments of $D$ and the radius of gyration.
Digests and expositions
- Latent Seminar, Honeycomb walks: strip estimates and the three-quarter exponent (expository article, 2026-10-06). Explains the ensembles and proof dependencies of the thirteen companion papers. [family-level]
Elsewhere
- VibeMathed: Problem record
- Emergent Mind: family 237
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author = {{OpenAI}},
title = {{Mass and covering exponents for fixed-length honeycomb walks}},
howpublished = {OpenAI Math Release preprint
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year = {2026}
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Family 237: The three-quarter exponent for honeycomb self-avoiding walk
Proves the diameter form of Nienhuis's predicted three-quarter exponent: a uniformly chosen n-step self-avoiding walk on the honeycomb lattice has diameter $n^{3/4+o(1)}$. Its local mass and covering numbers have exponent 4/3. These estimates hold at every sufficiently large fixed length, simultaneously across scales, with arbitrarily high polynomial probability.
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- Uniform marked-polygon estimates and sharp finite bridge moments · September 26, 2026
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