Abstract
We discuss the writhe of a self-avoiding polygon on a lattice, as a geometrical measure of its entanglement complexity. We prove a rigorous result about the dependence of the absolute value of the writhe on the number n of edges in the polygon, and use Monte Carlo methods to estimate the distribution of the writhe both for all polygons with n edges and for the subset of polygons that are trefoils.
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