THE GENERALIZED POLAND-SCHERAGA MODEL: A BIVARIATE RENEWAL APPROACH TO DNA DENATURATION

Maha Khatib

The Poland-Scheraga (PS) model is the standard basic model to study the denaturation transition of two complementary and equally long strands of DNA. This model has enjoyed a remarkable attention because it is exactly solvable in its homogeneous version. The solvable character is related to the fact