Seminars

Height fluctuations for interacting dimers

by Prof. Vieri Mastropietro (Universita' di Milano)

Europe/Rome
Description
We consider interacting dimers on the two-dimensional square lattice. The non-interacting model is ``integrable'' and solvable via Kasteleyn theory, but interactions destroy integrability and have prevented up to now a rigorous understanding. By using Constructive Renormalization Group we prove that all the moments of the height difference converge to those of the Gaussian Free Field. Remarkably, dimer-dimer correlation functions are instead not universal and decay with a critical exponent that depends on the interaction strength. The height difference takes the form of a non-local fermionic operator, consisting of a sum of fermionic monomials along an arbitrary path; this path-independence plays a crucial role eliminating spurious ultraviolet divergences. Work in collaboration with F. Toninelli and A. Giuliani (arXiv:1406.7710)