Dimer statistics on the M\"obius strip and the Klein bottle
Abstract
Closed-form expressions are obtained for the generating function of close-packed dimers on a 2M × 2N simple quartic lattice embedded on a M\"obius strip and a Klein bottle. Finite-size corrections are also analyzed and compared with those under cylindrical and free boundary conditions. Particularly, it is found that, for large lattices of the same size and with a square symmetry, the number of dimer configurations on a M\"obius strip is 70.2% of that on a cylinder. We also establish two identities relating dimer generating functions for M\"obius strips and cylinders.
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