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Volume 109, Number 4, February 2015
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Article Number | 40011 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/109/40011 | |
Published online | 04 March 2015 |
Entropy of unimodular lattice triangulations
Institut für Theoretische Physik, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg - Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Received: 8 December 2014
Accepted: 10 February 2015
Triangulations are important objects of study in combinatorics, finite element simulations and quantum gravity, where their entropy is crucial for many physical properties. Due to their inherent complex topological structure even the number of possible triangulations is unknown for large systems. We present a novel algorithm for an approximate enumeration which is based on calculations of the density of states using the Wang-Landau flat histogram sampling. For triangulations on two-dimensional integer lattices we achieve excellent agreement with known exact numbers of small triangulations as well as an improvement of analytical calculated asymptotics. The entropy density is consistent with rigorous upper and lower bounds. The presented numerical scheme can easily be applied to other counting and optimization problems.
PACS: 05.10.Ln – Monte Carlo methods / 02.10.Ox – Combinatorics; graph theory / 64.60.aq – Networks
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