Limit shapes from harmonicity: dominos and the five vertex model

Abstract

We discuss how to construct limit shapes for the domino tiling model (square lattice dimer model) and $5$-vertex model, in appropriate polygonal domains. Our methods are based on the harmonic extension method of [R. Kenyon and I. Prause, Gradient variational problems in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$, Duke Math J. 2022].

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