The Arctic curve for Aztec rectangles with defects via the tangent method

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Abstract: The Tangent Method of Colomo and Sportiello is applied to the study of the asymptotics of domino tilings of large Aztec rectangles, with some fixed distribution of defects along a boundary. The associated Non-Intersecting Lattice Path configurations are made of Schr"oder paths whose weights involve two parameters gamma and q keeping track respectively of one particular type of step and of the area below the paths. We derive the arctic curve for an arbitrary distribution of defects, and illustrate our result with a number of examples involving different classes of boundary defects.


An Aztec rectangle of size \((n+1)\times (m+1)\) (with \(m\ge n\)) with defects along its lower boundary is a domain drawn on the tilted by \(45^\circ\) square lattice with zig-zag shaped boundary whose defects are introduced by adding to the lower boundary of the regular \(n\times m\) Aztec rectangle a number \(n-m\) of elementary squares. In the paper under review, the authors consider tilings of this domain with \(2\times 1\) rectangular dominos tilted by \(45^\circ\). An arctic curve phenomenon is the existence of a sharply defined separation between frozen phases with regular lattice-like tiling configurations and liquid phases with disorder. The authors apply the tangent method proposed by \textit{F. Colomo} and \textit{A. Sportiello} [J. Stat. Phys. 164, No. 6, 1488--1523 (2016; Zbl 1354.82006)] to the study of asymptotics of domino tilings of large Aztec rectangles, with some fixed distribution of defects along a boundary. The method is based on the reformulation of tiling problems in terms of non-intersecting lattice paths, and here these paths are weighted with two parametrs. The paper extends previous results about the arctic curve phenomenon in NILP configurations with arbitrary starting points to a wider class of models involving weighted Schröder lattice paths. The arctic curve is predicted for an arbitrary distribution of defects. Also the results are illustrated with a number of examples involving different classes of boundary defects.











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