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Dimers on surface graphs and spin structures. I

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-26 v2 Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0608070,
  title  = {Dimers on surface graphs and spin structures. I},
  author = {David Cimasoni and Nicolai Reshetikhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0608070},
  year   = {2015}
}

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21 pages, 8 figures, minor modifications