A random tiling model for two dimensional electrostatics

DOI10.1090/MEMO/0839MaRDI QIDQ5713279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mihai Ciucu

Publication date 13 December 2005

Published in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0303067

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic enumerationcorrelationdimer modelelectrostaticsexact enumerationlozenge tilingsperfect matchingsplane partitionsrandom tilingsscaling limitsimple product formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We consider triangular holes on the hexagonal lattice and we study their interaction when the rest of the lattice is covered by dimers. More precisely, we analyze the joint correlation of these triangular holes in a ``sea of dimers. We determine the asymptotics of the joint correlation (for large separations between the holes) in the case when one of the holes has side 1, all remaining holes have side 2, and the holes are distributed symmetrically with respect to a symmetry axis. Our result has a striking physical interpretation. If we regard the holes as electrical charges, with charge equal to the difference between the number of down-pointing and up-pointing unit triangles in a hole, the logarithm of the joint correlation behaves exactly like the electrostatic potential energy of this two-dimensional electrostatic system: it is obtained by a Superposition Principle from the interaction of all pairs, and the pair interactions are according to Coulomb's law.

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