The uniqueness conjecture for positive-entropy domino-tiling measures
Let denote the measure on domino tilings of the plane associated with tilt . A measure is conditionally uniform when, given a tiling outside any finite region, the conditional distribution inside that region is uniform; require also invariance under color-preserving translations, ergodicity, and positive entropy. Uniqueness conjecture. Every ergodic, conditionally uniform measure on the set of tilings of the plane that is invariant under color-preserving translations and has positive entropy is of the form for some satisfying . The paper notes that the measures are mixing and hence ergodic in the positive-entropy regime, but says that their characterization by these properties cannot be proved.
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Primary source
Henry Cohn, Richard Kenyon and James Propp, “A variational principle for domino tilings”, arXiv:math/0008220 (2001).
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