Dimers on rail yard graphs

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/46MaRDI QIDQ679659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Chapuy, Sylvie Corteel, Sanjay Ramassamy, Cédric Boutillier, Bouttier

Publication date 19 January 2018

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (AIHPD) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05176

zbMATH Keywords

Aztec diamonddeterminantal processesdimer modelsfree fermionsplane partitionsSchur processvertex operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We introduce a general model of dimer coverings of certain plane bipartite graphs, which we call rail yard graphs (RYG). The transfer matrices used to compute the partition function are shown to be isomorphic to certain operators arising in the so-called boson-fermion correspondence. This allows to reformulate the RYG dimer model as a Schur process, i.e. as a random sequence of integer partitions subject to some interlacing conditions. Beyond the computation of the partition function, we provide an explicit expression for all correlation functions or, equivalently, for the inverse Kasteleyn matrix of the RYG dimer model. This expression, which is amenable to asymptotic analysis, follows from an exact combinatorial description of the operators localizing dimers in the transfer-matrix formalism, and then a suitable application of Wick's theorem. Plane partitions, domino tilings of the Aztec diamond, pyramid partitions, and steep tilings arise as particular cases of the RYG dimer model. For the Aztec diamond, we provide new derivations of the edge-probability generating function, of the biased creation rate, of the inverse Kasteleyn matrix and of the arctic circle theorem.

Review text

The authors consider a dimer model on a so-called rail yard graph (RYG), which is an infinite bipartite plane graph, periodic in one direction but not in the other. The RYG dimer model is a probability measure over an admissible dimer covering. For the model the authors compute its partition function and correlation function. The RYG dimer model is also reformulated as a Schur process, which is a random sequence of integer partitions subject to some interlacing conditions. An explicit expression for all correlation functions is provided, this is equivalent to the expression of the inverse Kasteleyn matrix of the RYG dimer model. It is noted that plane partitions, domino tilings of the Aztec diamond, pyramid partitions, and steep tillings arise as particular cases of the RYG dimer model. A new derivations of the edge-probability generating function is provided for the Aztec diamond.

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