Dimers on surface graphs and spin structures. II

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0488-3zbMATH Open1168.82012arXiv0704.0273OpenAlexW2160533280MaRDI QIDQ1006870FDOQ1006870

Nicolai Reshetikhin, David Cimasoni

Publication date: 26 March 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a previous paper, we showed how certain orientations of the edges of a graph G embedded in a closed oriented surface S can be understood as discrete spin structures on S. We then used this correspondence to give a geometric proof of the Pfaffian formula for the partition function of the dimer model on G. In the present article, we generalize these results to the case of compact oriented surfaces with boundary. We also show how the operations of cutting and gluing act on discrete spin structures and how they change the partition function. These operations allow to reformulate the dimer model as a quantum field theory on surface graphs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0273

zbMATH Keywords

spin structuresdimerssurface graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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