Discrete Dirac operators on Riemann surfaces and Kasteleyn matrices

DOI10.4171/JEMS/331MaRDI QIDQ437817zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Cimasoni

Publication date 20 July 2012

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.5339

zbMATH Keywords

dimer modelDirac operatordiscrete complex analysisisoradial graphKasteleyn matricesperfect matching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete geometry (52C99) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: Let S be a flat surface of genus g with cone type singularities. Given a bipartite graph G isoradially embedded in S, we define discrete analogs of the 2^{2g} Dirac operators on S. These discrete objects are then shown to converge to the continuous ones, in some appropriate sense. Finally, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on the pair (S,G) for these discrete Dirac operators to be Kasteleyn matrices of the graph G. As a consequence, if these conditions are met, the partition function of the dimer model on G can be explicitly written as an alternating sum of the determinants of these 2^{2g} discrete Dirac operators.

Review text

Summary: Let \(\Sigma\) be a flat surface of genus \(g\) with cone type singularities. Given a bipartite graph \(\Gamma\) isoradially embedded in \(\Sigma\), we define discrete analogs of the \(2^{2g}\) Dirac operators on \(\Sigma\). These discrete objects are then shown to converge to the continuous ones, in some appropriate sense. Finally, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on the pair \(\Gamma\subset\Sigma\) for these discrete Dirac operators to be Kasteleyn matrices of the graph \(\Gamma\). As a consequence, if these conditions are met, the partition function of the dimer model on \(\Gamma\) can be explicitly written as an alternating sum of the determinants of these \(2^{2g}\) discrete Dirac operators.

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