Dimer coverings on the Sierpinski gasket

Abstract: We present the number of dimers

N_{d} (n)

on the Sierpinski gasket

S G_{d} (n)

at stage

n

with dimension

d

equal to two, three, four or five, where one of the outmost vertices is not covered when the number of vertices

v (n)

is an odd number. The entropy of absorption of diatomic molecules per site, defined as

S_{S G_{d}} = l i m_{n o i n f t y} l n N_{d} (n) / v (n)

, is calculated to be

l n (2) / 3

exactly for

S G_{2} (n)

. The numbers of dimers on the generalized Sierpinski gasket

S G_{d, b} (n)

with

d = 2

and

b = 3, 4, 5

are also obtained exactly. Their entropies are equal to

l n (6) / 7

,

l n (28) / 12

,

l n (200) / 18

, respectively. The upper and lower bounds for the entropy are derived in terms of the results at a certain stage for

S G_{d} (n)

with

d = 3, 4, 5

. As the difference between these bounds converges quickly to zero as the calculated stage increases, the numerical value of

S_{S G_{d}}

with

d = 3, 4, 5

can be evaluated with more than a hundred significant figures accurate.

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