{
  "id": "math-ph/0608070",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2006-08-31T17:02:59.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-09-27T19:10:19.000Z",
  "title": "Dimers on surface graphs and spin structures. I",
  "authors": [
    "David Cimasoni",
    "Nicolai Reshetikhin"
  ],
  "comment": "21 pages, 8 figures, minor modifications",
  "journal": "Comm. Math. Phys. 275 (2007), 187-208",
  "categories": [
    "math-ph",
    "math.GT",
    "math.MP"
  ],
  "abstract": "Partition functions for dimers on closed oriented surfaces are known to be alternating sums of Pfaffians of Kasteleyn matrices. In this paper, we obtain the formula for the coefficients in terms of discrete spin structures.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2006-09-27T19:10:19.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "82B20",
      "57R15"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "surface graphs",
      "discrete spin structures",
      "kasteleyn matrices",
      "partition functions",
      "coefficients"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Springer",
      "journal": "Commun. Math. Phys."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 21,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}