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An upper bound for the multidimensional dimer problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Henryk Minc
Henryk Minc
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract

A recently proved upper bound for the permanents of (0,1) matrices is used to improve the Fowler-Rushbrooke upper bound for the constant λd occurring in the d-dimensional dimer problem, d ≥ 3.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 83 , Issue 3 , May 1978 , pp. 461 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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