MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF ISING-LIKE IMMUNOLOGICAL SHAPE SPACE

Dietrich Stauffer
Additional contact information
Dietrich Stauffer: Physics Department, St.F.X. University, Antigonish, N.S. B2G 2W5, Canada

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 1994, vol. 05, issue 03, 513-518

Abstract: The high-dimensional shape space for the antibodies of the immune system is simulated with an Ising-like interaction. However, instead of the molecular field being linear in the sum of the neighbor spins, we take it as quadratic and negative. In this way the bell-shaped response curve of biological immune systems is approximated, as a probabilistic generalization of window automata. We find phase transitions only in five and more dimensions, not in two to four, for nearest-neighbor interactions.

Keywords: Immunology; Shape Space; High Dimensions; Detailed Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129183194000696
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:05:y:1994:i:03:n:s0129183194000696

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S0129183194000696

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC) is currently edited by H. J. Herrmann

More articles in International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().