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The bead model and limit behaviors of dimer models

Probability 2011-02-24 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, we study the bead model: beads are threaded on a set of wires on the plane represented by parallel straight lines. We add the constraint that between two consecutive beads on a wire; there must be exactly one bead on each neighboring wire. We construct a one-parameter family of Gibbs measures on the bead configurations that are uniform in a certain sense. When endowed with one of these measures, this model is shown to be a determinantal point process, whose marginal on each wire is the sine process (given by eigenvalues of large hermitian random matrices). We prove then that this process appears as a limit of any dimer model on a planar bipartite graph when some weights degenerate.

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@article{arxiv.math/0607162,
  title  = {The bead model and limit behaviors of dimer models},
  author = {Cédric Boutillier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607162},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP398 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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