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A dimer view on Fox's trapezoidal conjecture
Karola Mészáros, Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Alexander Vidinas
Fox's conjecture (1962) states that the sequence of absolute values of the coefficients of the Alexander polynomial of alternating links is trapezoidal. While the conjecture remain…
math.CO2024
Dimer face polynomials in knot theory and cluster algebras
Karola Mészáros, Gregg Musiker, Melissa Sherman-Bennett +1
The set of perfect matchings of a connected bipartite plane graph has the structure of a distributive lattice, as shown by Propp, where the partial order is induced by the heig…