Crosslink Effects on Equilibrium Polymers

(Received 2 November 1994, revised in final form 21 December 1994, accepted 4 January 1995)

Abstract
We study the effects of the three- and fourfold crosslinks on wormlike micelles. This model is worked using a correspondence between magnetic models and equilibrium polymers. We obtain the phase diagrams and the critical behavior of the concentration of extremities and of crosslinks. These crosslinks generate a demixing for both three- and fourfold connections. We show that, due to the difference of parity between the three- and fourfold connections, the behavior is quite different for each case.