Interlaced particle systems and tilings of the Aztec diamond

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0121-2zbMATH Open1210.82020arXiv1004.0474OpenAlexW2033641596MaRDI QIDQ628679FDOQ628679

Benjamin J. Fleming, Peter J. Forrester

Publication date: 14 March 2011

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

Abstract: Motivated by the problem of domino tilings of the Aztec diamond, a weighted particle system is defined on $N$ lines, with line $j$ containing $j$ particles. The particles are restricted to lattice points from 0 to $N$, and particles on successive lines are subject to an interlacing constraint. It is shown that marginal distributions for this particle system can be computed exactly. This in turn is used to give unified derivations of a number of fundamental properties of the tiling problem, for example the evaluation of the number of distinct configurations and the relation to the GUE minor process. An interlaced particle system associated with the domino tiling of a certain half Aztec diamond is similarly defined and analyzed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0474

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zbMATH Keywords

random matricesAztec diamondinterlaced particle system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21)

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