Lozenge Tilings and the Gaussian Free Field on a Cylinder
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Ahn, Andrew; Russkikh, Marianna; Van Peski, Roger
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We use the periodic Schur process, introduced in (Borodin in Duke Math J 140(3):391–468 2007), to study the random height function of lozenge tilings (equivalently, dimers) on an infinite cylinder distributed under two variants of the
$$q^{{{\text {vol}}}}$$
q
vol
measure. Under the first variant, corresponding to random cylindric partitions, the height function converges to a deterministic limit shape and fluctuations around it are given by the Gaussian free field in the conformal structure predicted by the Kenyon-Okounkov conjecture. Under the second variant, corresponding to an unrestricted dimer model on the cylinder, the fluctuations are given by the same Gaussian free field with an additional discrete Gaussian shift component. Fluctuations of the latter type have been previously conjectured for dimer models on planar domains with holes.
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2022-09-19Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsPublisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Ahn, Andrew, Russkikh, Marianna and Van Peski, Roger. 2022. "Lozenge Tilings and the Gaussian Free Field on a Cylinder."
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