The heat-flow conjecture for average lozenge orientations in dimer systems

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Let Ωˉ\bar\Omega be the limiting region with red boundary segments corresponding to constrained boundary conditions and blue segments corresponding to free boundary conditions. Let O1(n),,Ok(n)O_1^{(n)},\dotsc,O_k^{(n)} be translated finite unions of unit triangles in the interior of Ωn\Omega_n, shrinking to distinct points a1,,akΩa_1,\dotsc,a_k\in\Omega. Let F\boldsymbol{F} be the field of average lozenge orientations, and let h\boldsymbol{h} be the steady-state heat-flow vector field for the corresponding system with point sources at the aia_i and the stated insulating and constant-temperature boundary conditions. The heat-flow conjecture. There is a scalar constant cc, depending on Ω\Omega, the portions of the boundary with each boundary condition, and the shapes of the Oi(n)O_i^{(n)}, but not on the common temperature or the limiting points a1,,aka_1,\dotsc,a_k, such that

limnn,Fc,h.\lim_{n\to\infty} n\\,\boldsymbol{F}\sim c\\,\boldsymbol{h}.

This conjectures that the macroscopic average orientation field of the dimer system is proportional to the heat-flow field of the associated steady-state physical system. The source provides no resolution, so the status is left open.

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Mihai Ciucu, “The effect of microscopic gap displacement on the correlation of gaps in dimer systems”, arXiv:2012.03770 (2020).

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