The exact perimeter generating function for a model of punctured staircase polygons

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/21/215002MaRDI QIDQ3503814zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. Jensen, Andrew Rechnitzer

Publication date 9 June 2008

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610605

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: We have derived the perimeter generating function of a model of punctured staircase polygons in which the internal staircase polygon is rotated by a 90degree angle with respect to the outer staircase polygon. In one approach we calculated a long series expansion for the problem and found that all the terms in the generating function can be reproduced from a linear Fuchsian differential equation of order 4. We then solved this ODE and found a closed form expression for the generating function. This is a highly unusual and most fortuitous result since ODEs of such high order very rarely permit a closed form solution. In a second approach we proved the result for the generating function exactly using combinatorial arguments. This latter solution allows many generalisations including to models with other types of punctures and to a model with any fixed number of nested rotated staircase punctures.

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