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The dimer model: equilibrium and non-equilibrium aspects (corso di dottorato)

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Seminari di Probabilità
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Aula
Aula B
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Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Sapienza Università di Roma

Speaker

Fabio Lucio Toninelli (Università di Lyon 1)

This course focuses on various mathematical aspects of lattice dimer models. These are very classical two-dimensional statistical mechanics models, that are exactly solvable in some sense (Kasteleyn, 1961): partition function and correlations can be computed in determinantal form. Recently there has been a new wave of interest in dimer models, both in probability, combinatorics and mathematical physics. One reason is that these models, as well as other two-dimensional critical models, exhibit conformal invariance properties. Another interesting aspect is that they allow to obtain very nice Markov dynamics of two-dimensional interfaces, whose large-scale dynamical behavior can be studied.