The Squish Map and the SL_2 Double Dimer Model

dc.contributor.advisorYoung, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Leigh
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-07T21:29:02Z
dc.date.available2024-08-07T21:29:02Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-07
dc.description.abstractA plane partition, whose 3D Young diagram is made of unit cubes, can be approximated by a “coarser” plane partition, made of cubes of side length 2. Indeed, there are two such approximations obtained by “rounding up” or “rounding down” to the nearest cube. We relate this coarsening (or downsampling) operation to the squish map introduced by the second author in earlier work. We exhibit a related measure-preserving map between the dimer model on the honeycomb graph, and the SL_2 double dimer model on a coarser honeycomb graph; we compute the most interesting special case of this map, related to plane partition q-enumeration with 2-periodic weights. As an application, we specialize the weights to be certain roots of unity, obtain novel generating functions (some known, some new, and some conjectural) that (−1)-enumerate certain classes of pairs of plane partitions according to how their dimer configurations interact.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29736
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectcombinatoricsen_US
dc.subjectlinear algebraen_US
dc.subjectstatistical mechanicsen_US
dc.titleThe Squish Map and the SL_2 Double Dimer Model
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Mathematics
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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