Massimiliano Mattera - Annihilating random walks and perfect matchings of planar graphs

dmtcs:3326 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2003, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC, Discrete Random Walks (DRW'03) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3326
Annihilating random walks and perfect matchings of planar graphsConference paper

Authors: Massimiliano Mattera 1

  • 1 Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay


We study annihilating random walks on $\mathbb{Z}$ using techniques of P.W. Kasteleyn and $R$. Kenyonon perfect matchings of planar graphs. We obtain the asymptotic of the density of remaining particles and the partition function of the underlying statistical mechanical model.

https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3326
Source: HAL:hal-01183921v1
Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC, Discrete Random Walks (DRW'03)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2003
Imported on: May 10, 2017
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-DS]Computer Science [cs]/Data Structures and Algorithms [cs.DS], [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM], [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO], [INFO.INFO-CG]Computer Science [cs]/Computational Geometry [cs.CG], [en] Perfect matchings, Partition fucntion, Interacting particles systems

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