{"paper":{"title":"The Hammersley-Welsh bound for self-avoiding walk revisited","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math-ph","math.CO","math.MP"],"primary_cat":"math.PR","authors_text":"Tom Hutchcroft","submitted_at":"2017-08-30T20:34:20Z","abstract_excerpt":"The Hammersley-Welsh bound (1962) states that the number $c_n$ of length $n$ self-avoiding walks on $\\mathbb{Z}^d$ satisfies \\[ c_n \\leq \\exp \\left[ O(n^{1/2}) \\right] \\mu_c^n, \\] where $\\mu_c=\\mu_c(d)$ is the connective constant of $\\mathbb{Z}^d$. While stronger estimates have subsequently been proven for $d\\geq 3$, for $d=2$ this has remained the best rigorous, unconditional bound available. In this note, we give a new, simplified proof of this bound, which does not rely on the combinatorial analysis of unfolding. We also prove a small, non-quantitative improvement to the bound, namely \\[ c_"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1708.09460","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}