Monte Carlo Methods for the Self-Avoiding Walk

This article is a pedagogical review of Monte Carlo methods for the self-avoiding walk, with emphasis on the extraordinarily efficient algorithms developed over the past decade.Comment: 81 pages including lots of figures, 700138 bytes Postscript (NYU-TH-94/05/02) [To appear in Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Polymer Science, edited by Kurt Binder, Oxford University Press, expected late 1994