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The statistics of dimers on a lattice. I: The number of dimer arrangements on a quadratic lattice. (English) Zbl 1244.82014

Summary: The number of ways in which a finite quadratic lattice (with edges or with periodic boundary conditions) can be fully covered with given numbers of “horizontal” and “vertical” dimers is rigorously calculated by a combinatorial method involving Pfaffians. For lattices infinite in one or two dimensions asymptotic expressions for this number of dimer configurations are derived, and as an application the entropy of a mixture of dimers of two different lengths on an infinite rectangular lattice is calculated. The relation of this combinatorial problem to the Ising problem is briefly discussed.

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