Thermal Recurrence Orders of the Potts Model Partition Function in Grid Graphs
Abstract
We study the linear recurrence order of the Potts model partition function on thermal 2D grid graphs. By restricting the transfer matrix (TM) to the real coupling axis, the physical operator maintains diagonalizability under the Spectral Theorem. We show that this thermal regularization allows the Krylov subspace to saturate the unconstrained planar state capacity, locking the recurrence order to the Dyck path up to reversal (OEIS A007123) for q ≥ 4. Furthermore, the recurrence order collapses to height-restricted Dyck paths up to reversal (OEIS A001998) for q=3 due to finite-index Jones-Wenzl projections, and to the zero-magnetization conservation sector (OEIS A001405) for q=2. This framework bridges graph-theoretic combinatorics with the representation theory of physical loop gas models.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026thermal,
title = {{Thermal Recurrence Orders of the Potts Model Partition Function in Grid Graphs}},
author = {Yi-Zhong Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.21789},
eprint = {2608.21789},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21789},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Thermal Recurrence Orders of the Potts Model Partition Function in Grid Graphs
AU - Yi-Zhong Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/22
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.21789
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21789
AB - We study the linear recurrence order of the Potts model partition function on thermal 2D grid graphs. By restricting the transfer matrix (TM) to the real coupling axis, the physical operator maintains diagonalizability under the Spectral Theorem. We show that this thermal regularization allows the Krylov subspace to saturate the unconstrained planar state capacity, locking the recurrence order to the Dyck path up to reversal (OEIS A007123) for q ≥ 4. Furthermore, the recurrence order collapses to height-restricted Dyck paths up to reversal (OEIS A001998) for q=3 due to finite-index Jones-Wenzl projections, and to the zero-magnetization conservation sector (OEIS A001405) for q=2. This framework bridges graph-theoretic combinatorics with the representation theory of physical loop gas models.
ER -