New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 22 (2016) 891-906

  

Abhijit Champanerkar and Ilya Kofman

Determinant density and biperiodic alternating links

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Published: August 23, 2016
Keywords: Spanning tree entropy, Mahler measure, knot determinant, dimer model, Følner convergence
Subject: Primary: 57M25, 05A16; secondary: 57M50, 05C30

Abstract
Let L be any infinite biperiodic alternating link. We show that for any sequence of finite links that Følner converges almost everywhere to L, their determinant densities converge to the Mahler measure of the 2-variable characteristic polynomial of the toroidal dimer model on an associated biperiodic graph.

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge support by the Simons Foundation and PSC-CUNY. The first author also thanks the Columbia University Mathematics Department for its hospitality during his sabbatical leave.


Author information

Abhijit Champanerkar:
Department of Mathematics, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY
abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu

Ilya Kofman:
Department of Mathematics, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY
ikofman@math.csi.cuny.edu