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Exact and explicit formulas relating equilibrium polymerization (with excluded volume and polymer rings) and Ising models with even multispin interactions in any dimension are given. It is concluded that equilibrium polymerization either belongs to the Ising universality class or is a first-order transition. Numerical, mean-field evaluations disfavor the latter.
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Marko V. Jarić (1983) studied this question.
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