Self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice

Abstract

We have substantially extended the series for the number of self-avoiding walks and the mean-square end-to-end distance on the simple cubic lattice. Our analysis of the series gives refined estimates for the critical point and critical exponents. Our estimates of the exponents γ and ν are in good agreement with recent high-precision Monte Carlo estimates, and also with recent renormalization group estimates. Critical amplitude estimates are also given. A new, improved rigorous upper bound for the connective constant µ<4.7114 is obtained.