Discrete Mathematics in Statistical Physics Introductory Lectures /

• Main Author: Loebl, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner, 2010.
• Subjects: Physics.; Algebra.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

The book first describes connections between some basic problems and technics of combinatorics and statistical physics. The discrete mathematics and physics terminology are related to each other. Using the established connections, some exciting activities in one field are shown from a perspective of...

Table of Contents:

• Basic concepts
• to Graph Theory
• Trees and electrical networks
• Matroids
• Geometric representations of graphs
• Game of dualities
• The zeta function and graph polynomials
• Knots
• 2D Ising and dimer models.