The three-quarter exponent for honeycomb self-avoiding walk

Formal proof listed 13 papers September 26, 2026
What the paper claims, in its own words

Proves the diameter form of Nienhuis's predicted three-quarter exponent: a uniformly chosen n-step self-avoiding walk on the honeycomb lattice has diameter n3/4+o(1)n^{3/4+o(1)}. Its local mass and covering numbers have exponent 4/3. These estimates hold at every sufficiently large fixed length, simultaneously across scales, with arbitrarily high polynomial probability.

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