The uniqueness conjecture for positive-entropy domino-tiling measures

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Let μs,t\mu_{s,t} denote the measure on domino tilings of the plane associated with tilt (s,t)(s,t). 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 μs,t\mu_{s,t} for some (s,t)(s,t) satisfying s+t<2|s|+|t|<2. The paper notes that the measures μs,t\mu_{s,t} 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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Henry Cohn, Richard Kenyon and James Propp, “A variational principle for domino tilings”, arXiv:math/0008220 (2001).

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