Local dimer dynamics in higher dimensions

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Authors Ivailo Hartarsky, Lyuben Lichev, Fabio Lucio Toninelli

Publication date 21 April 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Polyominoes (05B50)

Abstract: We consider local dynamics of the dimer model (perfect matchings) on hypercubic boxes $[n{]}^d$. These consist of successively switching the dimers along alternating cycles of prescribed (small) lengths. We study the connectivity properties of the dimer configuration space equipped with these transitions. Answering a question of Freire, Klivans, Milet and Saldanha, we show that in three dimensions any configuration admits an alternating cycle of length at most 6. We further establish that any configuration on $[n{]}^d$ features order $n^{d-2}$ alternating cycles of length at most $4d-2$. We also prove that the dynamics of dimer configurations on the unit hypercube of dimension $d$ is ergodic when switching alternating cycles of length at most $4d-4$. Finally, in the planar but non-bipartite case, we show that parallelogram-shaped boxes in the triangular lattice are ergodic for switching alternating cycles of lengths 4 and 6 only, thus improving a result of Kenyon and R'emila, which also uses 8-cycles. None of our proofs make reference to height functions.

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