Abstract

We consider various lattice models of polymers: lattice trees, lattice animals, and self-avoiding walks. The polymer interacts with a surface (hyperplane), receiving an energy reward of β for each site in the surface. It is known that there is an adsorption transition at a critical value of β. We present a new proof of the result of Hammersley et al (1982 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 15 539–71) that the transition occurs at a strictly positive value of β when the surface is impenetrable, i.e. when the polymer is restricted to a half-space. In contrast, for a penetrable surface, it is an open problem to prove that the transition occurs at . We reduce this problem to proving that the fraction of N-site polymers whose span is less than is not too small.

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