Abstract
The effect of the preservation of the topology of the entanglement in systems of polymer loops is investigated. We define a simple two-state linking invariant for a pair of loop polymer chains and show its relationship to the familiar Gaussian linking number. The probability of linking two disjoint sets chosen from a dense melt of closed-loop chains is determined. We discuss the form of the resulting probability and the approximations necessary in obtaining it.
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