Variations on a theme of Kasteleyn, with application to the totally nonnegative Grassmannian (Q281632)

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Variations on a theme of Kasteleyn, with application to the totally nonnegative Grassmannian
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    Variations on a theme of Kasteleyn, with application to the totally nonnegative Grassmannian (English)
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    11 May 2016
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    Summary: We provide a short proof of a classical result of \textit{P. W. Kasteleyn} [Graph Theory Theor. Phys., 43--110 (1967; Zbl 0205.28402)], and prove several variants thereof. One of these results has become key in the parametrization of positroid varieties, and thus deserves the short direct proof which we provide.
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    perfect matchings
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    dimer
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    determinant
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    Pfaffian
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    Kasteleyn
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    positroid
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