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The dimer partition function

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We apply the Ginzburg criterion to the dimer problem and we solve the apparent contradiction of a system with mean field α=12\alpha={1\over2}, the typical value of tricritical systems, and upper critical dimension Dcr=6D_{cr}=6. We find that the system has upper critical dimension Dcr=6D_{cr}=6 , while for D4D\le4 it should undergo a first order phase transition. We comment on the latter wrong result examining the approximation we used.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9303015,
  title  = {The dimer partition function},
  author = {I. Pesando},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9303015},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, Latex, NBI-HE-93-16

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