English

The cluster modular group of the dimer model

Combinatorics 2021-11-16 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Associated to a convex integral polygon NN is a cluster integrable system XN\mathcal X_N constructed from the dimer model. We compute the group GNG_N of symmetries of XN\mathcal X_N, called the (2-2) cluster modular group, showing that it is a certain abelian group conjectured by Fock and Marshakov. Combinatorially, non-torsion elements of GNG_N are ways of shuffling the underlying bipartite graph, generalizing domino-shuffling. Algebro-geometrically, GNG_N is a subgroup of the Picard group of a certain algebraic surface associated to NN.

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@article{arxiv.1909.12896,
  title  = {The cluster modular group of the dimer model},
  author = {Terrence George and Giovanni Inchiostro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12896},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Added a background section 2.4, and a new section 6.1. Appendix is now section 5 and contains more details

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