A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions

DOI10.1007/S10955-016-1484-1zbMATH Open1342.82161OpenAlexW3102477060MaRDI QIDQ300697FDOQ300697

Authors A. Giuliani, Ian Jauslin, E. H. Lieb 

Publication date 28 June 2016

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05027

zbMATH Keywords

boundary monomersmonomer-dimer problemPfaffian formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We consider the monomer-dimer partition function on arbitrary finite planar graphs and arbitrary monomer and dimer weights, with the restriction that the only non-zero monomer weights are those on the boundary. We prove a Pfaffian formula for the corresponding partition function. As a consequence of this result, multipoint boundary monomer correlation functions at close packing are shown to satisfy fermionic statistics. Our proof is based on the celebrated Kasteleyn theorem, combined with a theorem on Pfaffians proved by one of the authors, and a careful labeling and directing procedure of the vertices and edges of the graph.

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