Title Information
Title
Combinatorial and Geometric Structure in the Self-Assembly of Polyhedra
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Johnson, Daniel C
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creator
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2015
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xiii, 108 p.
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Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2015)
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Menon, Govind
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Director
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Gidas, Basilis
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Reader
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Holmes-Cerfon, Miranda
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Brown University. Applied Mathematics
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sponsor
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theses
Abstract
We consider a discrete attachment model for the self-assembly of polyhedra called the Building Game. The combinatorial configuration space of the model is computed for the Polyhedra in the Platonic, Archimedean, and Catalan solids of up to 30 faces and several novel enumerative results are generated. Further, we extend the Building Game to include geometric information in the form of a polygonal linkage. Using systems of constraints to specify the linkage, the geometric configuration space is given as a solution manifold. A random walk scheme is used to simulate reflected Brownian motion on the geometric configuration space manifolds. The combinatorial and geometric aspects of the Building Game are combined and used in a Markov process model for measuring statistics of the self-assembly process.
Subject
Topic
Self-Assembly
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1070511")
Topic
Polyhedra
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20150601
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eng
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English
Identifier: DOI
10.7301/Z0ZK5F37
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dissertations