The geometry of dimer models
David Cimasoni (2014)
Winter Braids Lecture Notes
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This is an expanded version of a three-hour minicourse given at the winterschool held in Dijon in February 2014. The aim of these lectures was to present some aspects of the dimer model to a geometrically minded audience. We spoke neither of braids nor of knots, but tried to show how several geometric tools that we know and love (e.g. (co)homology, spin structures, real algebraic curves) can be applied to very natural problems in combinatorics and statistical physics. These lecture...