Abstract
Topological properties of crystalline ice structures are studied by means of self-avoiding walks on their H-bond networks. The number of self-avoiding walks, C_n, for eight ice polymorphs has been obtained by direct enumeration up to walk length n = 27. This has allowed us to determine the `connective constant' or effective coordination number `mu' of these structures as the limit of the ratio C_n/C_{n-1} for large n. This structure-dependent parameter `mu' is related with other topological characteristics of ice polymorphs, such as the mean and minimum ring size, or the topological density of network sites. A correlation between the connective constant and the configurational entropy of hydrogen-disordered ice structures is discussed.
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