Domino tilings of black-and-white Temperleyan cylinders
Abstract
We consider the dimer model in cylindrical domains on square grids of mesh size with two Temperleyan boundary components of different colors. Assuming that the approximate a cylindrical domain as , we prove the convergence of height fluctuations to the Gaussian Free Field in plus an independent discrete Gaussian multiple of the harmonic measure of one of the boundary components. The limit of the dimer coupling functions on is holomorphic in but not conformally covariant. Given this, we determine the limiting structure of height fluctuations from general principles rather than from explicit computations. In particular, our analysis justifies the inevitable appearance of the discrete Gaussian distribution in the doubly connected setup.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.13332,
title = {Domino tilings of black-and-white Temperleyan cylinders},
author = {Dmitry Chelkak and Zachary Deiman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13332},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages, 3 figures