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In this paper, we continue the study of domino-tilings of Aztec diamonds. In particular, we look at certain ways of placing ``barriers'' in the Aztec diamond, with the constraint that no domino may cross a barrier. Remarkably, the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Propp , Richard Stanley

We study the asymptotic behavior of random domino tilings of the Aztec diamond of size $M$ in a random environment, where the environment is a one-periodic sequence of i.i.d. random weights attached to domino positions (i.e., to the edges…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Alexey Bufetov , Leonid Petrov , Panagiotis Zografos

We consider a generating function of the domino tilings of an Aztec rectangle with several boundary unit squares removed. Our generating function involves two statistics: the rank of the tiling and half number of vertical dominoes as in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Tri Lai

We obtain precise asymptotics for the weighted number of domino tilings of an L-shaped subset of the Aztec diamond, obtained by removing an approximate rectangle in a corner of the Aztec diamond. By tuning the size of the removed corner, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Christophe Charlier , Tom Claeys

We consider the six-vertex model at its free-fermion point with domain wall boundary conditions, which is equivalent to random domino tilings of the Aztec diamond. We compute the scaling limit of a particular non-local correlation function,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Filippo Colomo , Andrei G. Pronko

We study tilings of regions in the square lattice with L-shaped trominoes. Deciding the existence of a tiling with L-trominoes for an arbitrary region in general is NP-complete, nonetheless, we identify restrictions to the problem where it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Javier T. Akagi , Carlos F. Gaona , Fabricio Mendoza , Manjil P. Saikia , Marcos Villagra

We consider domino tilings of $3$-dimensional cubiculated regions. A three-dimensional domino is a 2x2x1 rectangular cuboid. We are particularly interested in regions of the form $R_N = D \times [0,N]$ where $D$ is a fixed quadriculated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Nicolau C. Saldanha

The inverse Kasteleyn matrix of a bipartite graph holds much information about the perfect matchings of the system such as local statistics which can be used to compute local and global asymptotics. In this paper, we consider three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Sunil Chhita , Benjamin Young

We study the enumeration of off-diagonally symmetric domino tilings of odd-order Aztec diamonds in two directions: (1) with one boundary defect, and (2) with maximally-many zeroes on the diagonal. In the first direction, we prove a symmetry…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Yi-Lin Lee

Random domino tilings of the Aztec diamond shape exhibit interesting features and some of the statistical properties seen in random matrix theory. As a statistical mechanical model it can be thought of as a dimer model or as a certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Sunil Chhita , Kurt Johansson

For various sets of tiles, we count the ways to tile an Aztec diamond of order $n$ using tiles from that set. The resulting function $f(n)$ often has interesting behavior when one looks at $n$ and $f(n)$ modulo powers of 2.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-08 James Propp

The problem of counting tilings of a plane region using specified tiles can often be recast as the problem of counting (perfect) matchings of some subgraph of an Aztec diamond graph A_n, or more generally calculating the sum of the weights…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Propp

Three phases of macroscopic domains have been seen for large but finite periodic dimer models; these are known as the frozen, rough and smooth phases. The transition region between the frozen and rough region has received a lot of attention…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Kurt Johansson , Scott Mason

We analyze domino tilings of the two-periodic Aztec diamond by means of matrix valued orthogonal polynomials that we obtain from a reformulation of the Aztec diamond as a non-intersecting path model with periodic transition matrices. In a…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Maurice Duits , Arno B. J. Kuijlaars

Based on a bijection between domino tilings of an Aztec diamond and non-intersecting lattice paths, a simple proof of the Aztec diamond theorem is given in terms of Hankel determinants of the large and small Schr\"oder numbers.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sen-Peng Eu , Tung-Shan Fu

Di Francesco conjectured in 2021 that the number of domino tilings of a certain family of regions -- called Aztec triangles -- on the square lattice is given by a product formula reminiscent of the one giving the number of alternating sign…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Seok Hyun Byun , Mihai Ciucu

Random tilings of the two-periodic Aztec diamond contain three macroscopic regions: frozen, where the tilings are deterministic; rough, where the correlations between dominoes decay polynomially; smooth, where the correlations between…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Vincent Beffara , Sunil Chhita , Kurt Johansson

We explore the connections between the well-studied Aztec Diamond graphs and a new family of graphs called the Half-Hexagons, discovered by Jonathan Novak. In particular, both families of graphs have very simple domino shuffling algorithms,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-28 Eric Nordenstam , Benjamin Young

We study the large-scale geometry of t-surfaces -- pairs of perfect t-embeddings and their associated origami maps -- arising from dimer models on Aztec diamonds with periodic edge weights. We prove that these t-surfaces converge to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Tomas Berggren , Matthew Nicoletti , Marianna Russkikh

In this paper we consider domino tilings of bounded regions in dimension $n \geq 4$. We define the twist of such a tiling, an elements of ${\mathbb{Z}}/(2)$, and prove it is invariant under flips, a simple local move in the space of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Caroline Klivans , Nicolau C. Saldanha