Squareness for the monopole-dimer model

DOI10.1007/S00026-019-00480-5zbMATH Open1441.82001arXiv1608.03151OpenAlexW3098790893WikidataQ126357269 ScholiaQ126357269MaRDI QIDQ2189558FDOQ2189558

A. Ayyer

Publication date: 16 June 2020

Published in: Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The monopole-dimer model introduced recently is an exactly-solvable signed generalisation of the dimer model. We show that the partition function of the monopole-dimer model on a graph invariant under a fixed-point free involution is a perfect square. We give a combinatorial interpretation of the square-root of the partition function for such graphs in terms of a monopole-dimer model on a new kind of graph with two types of edges which we call a dicot. The partition function of the latter can be written as a determinant, this time of a complex adjacency matrix. This formulation generalises T. T. Wu's assignment of imaginary orientation for the grid graph to planar dicots. As an application, we compute the partition function for a family of non-planar dicots with positive weights.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03151

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zbMATH Keywords

determinantal formulafree energyKasteleyn orientationmonopole-dimer modelpartition functiondimer modeldicots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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• The monopole-dimer model on Cartesian products of plane graphs
• The monopole-dimer model for Cartesian products of graphs: extended abstract

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