Concepts of polymer statistical topology
  I review few conceptual steps in analytic description of topological interactions, which constitute the basis of a new interdisciplinary branch in mathematical physics, "Statistical Topology", emerged at the edge of topology and statistical physics of fluctuating non-phantom rope-like objects. This new branch is called statistical (or probabilistic) topology. 
S.K. Nechaev
cond-mat.stat-mech math.GT physics.chem-ph