Discusses the existence of knots in random self-avoiding walks on a lattice. Using Kesten's (1963) pattern theorem, it is shown that almost all sufficiently long self-avoiding walks on the three-dimensional simple cubic lattice contain a knot.
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Sumners et al. (1988) studied this question.
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