title: Scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media.
abstract: It has long been known that the universal scaling properties of linear polymers in disordered media are well described by the statistics of self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on percolation clusters and their critical exponent nu(SAW), with the SAW implicitly referring to the average SAW. Hitherto, static averaging has been commonly used, e.g., in numerical simulations, to determine what the average SAW is. We assert that only kinetic, rather than static, averaging can lead to asymptotic scaling behavior and corroborate our assertion by heuristic arguments and a renormalizable field theory. Moreover, we calculate to two-loop order nu(SAW), the exponent nu(max) for the longest SAW, and a family of multifractal exponents nu(alpha).
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Karl
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Stenull