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Special cycles in independence complexes and superfrustration in some lattices

Combinatorics 2012-01-04 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We prove that the independence complexes of some grids have exponential Betti numbers. This corresponds to the number of ground states in the hard-core model in statistical physics with fermions in the vertices of the grid.

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@article{arxiv.1109.4914,
  title  = {Special cycles in independence complexes and superfrustration in some lattices},
  author = {Michal Adamaszek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4914},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

V2: upgraded homotopical statement; minor improvements