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Determinant density and biperiodic alternating links

Geometric Topology 2018-11-16 v2

Abstract

Let L be any infinite biperiodic alternating link. We show that for any sequence of finite links that Folner converges almost everywhere to L, their determinant densities converge to the Mahler measure of the 2-variable characteristic polynomial of the toroidal dimer model on an associated biperiodic graph.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03795,
  title  = {Determinant density and biperiodic alternating links},
  author = {Abhijit Champanerkar and Ilya Kofman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03795},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages. V2: corrections in section 5

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