Dimers on surface graphs and spin structures. I

被引:75
作者
Cimasoni, David [1 ]
Reshetikhin, Nicolai [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Math, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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10.1007/s00220-007-0302-7
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Partition functions for dimers on closed oriented surfaces are known to be alternating sums of Pfaffians of Kasteleyn matrices. In this paper, we obtain the formula for the coefficients in terms of discrete spin structures.
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