Papers

Most of my papers can be found on my arXiv page. See also my Google Scholar page and my ORCID page.

Preprints

Chris J. Bradly, Nicholas R. Beaton and Aleksander L. Owczarek
Lattice polymers near a permeable interface
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Mark Holmes and Xin Huang
Chemical distance for the half-orthant model
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Kai Ishihara, Mahshid Atapour, Jeremy W. Eng, Mariel Vazquez, Koya Shimokawa, and Christine E. Soteros
Entanglement statistics of polymers in a lattice tube and unknotting of 4-plats
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Publications

Nicholas R. Beaton, Kai Ishihara, Mahshid Atapour, Jeremy W. Eng, Mariel Vazquez, Koya Shimokawa, and Christine E. Soteros
A first proof of knot localization for polymers in a nanochannel
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 57 (2024) 38LT01
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Nicholas R. Beaton and Aleksander L. Owczarek
Exact solution of weighted partially directed walks crossing a square
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 56 (2023) 155003
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Nicholas R. Beaton and Mark Holmes
The mean square displacement of random walk on the Manhattan lattice
Statistics & Probability Letters 193 (2023) 109706
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Nicholas R. Beaton
Walks obeying two-step rules on the square lattice: full, half and quarter planes
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 29 (2022) P1.14
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Aleksander L. Owczarek, and Ruijie Xu
Quarter-plane lattice paths with interacting boundaries: the Kreweras and reverse Kreweras models
Transcendence in Algebra, Combinatorics, Geometry and Number Theory (Proceedings of Trans'19)
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Volume 373 (2021), 163-192.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Geoffrey R. Grimmett, and Mark Holmes
Alignment percolation
Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry 24 (2021) #3.
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Nicholas R. Beaton and Aleksander L. Owczarek
Exact solutions of directed walk models of polymeric zipping with pulling in two and three dimensions
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 566 (2021) 125635.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Anthony J. Guttmann, and Iwan Jensen
Two-dimensional interacting self-avoiding walks: new estimates for critical temperatures and exponents
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 53 (2020) 165002.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Aleksander L. Owczarek, and Ruijie Xu
Quarter-plane lattice paths with interacting boundaries: Kreweras and friends
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Aleksander L. Owczarek, and Andrew Rechnitzer
Exact solution of some quarter plane walks with interacting boundaries
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 26 (2019) P3.53.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Mathilde Bouvel, Veronica Guerrini, and Simone Rinaldi
Slicings of parallelogram polyominoes: Catalan, Schröder, Baxter, and other sequences
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 26 (2019) P3.13.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Mathilde Bouvel, Veronica Guerrini, and Simone Rinaldi
Enumerating five families of pattern-avoiding inversion sequences; and introducing the powered Catalan numbers
Theoretical Computer Science 777 (2019) 69-92.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Jeremy W. Eng, and Christine E. Soteros
Knotting statistics for polygons in lattice tubes
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 52 (2019) 144003.
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Alireza Montazeri, Nicholas R. Beaton, and Dwight Makaroff
LRU-2 vs. 2-LRU: An Analytical Study
Proceedings of the IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2018.
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Jeremy W. Eng, Kai Ishihara, Koya Shimokawa, and Christine E. Soteros
Characterising knotting properties of polymers in nanochannels
Soft Matter 14 (2018), 5775-5785
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Andrew R. Conway, and Anthony J. Guttmann
On consecutive pattern-avoiding permutations of length 4, 5 and beyond
Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 19 -- Special Issue for Permutation Patterns 2016 (2018), Article #8
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Nicholas R. Beaton and E.J. Janse van Rensburg
Partition function zeros of adsorbing Dyck paths
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 51 (2018), 114002
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Nicholas R. Beaton
Adsorbing staircase polygons subject to a force
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 50 (2017), 494001
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Jeremy W. Eng, and Christine E. Soteros
Polygons in restricted geometries subjected to infinite forces
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 49 (2016), 424002
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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2016, Vancouver, Canada), 119-130
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Anthony J. Guttmann, Iwan Jensen, and Gregory F. Lawler
Compressed self-avoiding walks, bridges and polygons
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 48 (2015), 454001
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Nicholas R. Beaton and Gerasim K. Iliev
Two-sided prudent walks: A solvable non-directed model of polymer adsorption
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2015), P09014
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Nicholas R. Beaton
The critical pulling force for self-avoiding walks
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 48 (2015), 16FT03
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Axel Bacher and Nicholas R. Beaton
Weakly prudent self-avoiding bridges
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2014, Chicago, USA), 827-838
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Jan de Gier, Hugo Duminil-Copin, and Anthony J. Guttmann
The critical fugacity for surface adsorption of self-avoiding walks on the honeycomb lattice is $1+\sqrt{2}$
Communications in Mathematical Physics 326 (2014), 727-754
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Nicholas R. Beaton
The critical surface fugacity for self-avoiding walks on a rotated honeycomb lattice
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 47 (2014), 075003+
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Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2013, Paris, France), 665-676
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Anthony J. Guttmann, and Iwan Jensen
Two-dimensional self-avoiding walks and polymer adsorption: Critical fugacity estimates
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 45 (2012), 055208+
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Anthony J. Guttmann, and Iwan Jensen
A numerical adaptation of SAW identities from the honeycomb to other 2D lattices
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 45 (2012), 035201+
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Philippe Flajolet, Timothy M. Garoni, and Anthony J. Guttmann
Some new self-avoiding walk and polygon models
Fundamenta Informaticae 117 (2012), 19-33
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Philippe Flajolet, and Anthony J. Guttmann
The enumeration of prudent polygons by area and its unusual asymptotics
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 118 (2011), 2261-2290
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Filippo Disanto, Anthony J. Guttmann, and Simone Rinaldi
On the enumeration of column-convex permutominoes
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland), 111-122
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Nicholas R. Beaton, Philippe Flajolet, and Anthony J. Guttmann
The unusual asymptotics of three-sided prudent polygons
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 43 (2010), 342001+
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PhD Thesis

Combinatorics of Lattice Paths and Polygons
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Melbourne, 2012
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