The cylinder amplitude in the Hard Dimer model on 2D Causal Dynamical Triangulations

Abstract

We consider the model of hard dimers coupled to two-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) with all dimer types present and solve it exactly subject to a single restriction. Depending on the dimer weights there are, in addition to the usual gravity phase of CDT, two tri-critical and two dense dimer phases. We establish the properties of these phases, computing their cylinder and disk amplitudes, and their scaling limits.

Comments: 29 pages, 13 figures Revised version with slightly extended Discussion section, extra reference, and typos corrected