Jonsson's partition-function conjecture for odd square-grid cylinders

Let Cm,nC_{m,n} be the square-grid cylinder, let Z(Cm,n)Z(C_{m,n}) be the hard-particle partition function at activity 1-1, and suppose that nn is odd. Jonsson's cylinder partition-function conjecture. For all odd nn,

Z(Cm,n)={2if 3gcd(m1,n),1otherwise.Z(C_{m,n})= \begin{cases} -2 & \text{if }3\mid\gcd(m-1,n),\\ 1 & \text{otherwise.} \end{cases}

The conjecture is based on computations for m11m\leq11; the source does not state a resolution.

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Primary source

Johan Thapper, “Independence Complexes of Cylinders Constructed from Square and Hexagonal Grid Graphs”, arXiv:0812.1165 (2008).

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