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Coupling Dimers to CDT to Obtain Higher Order Multicritical Behavior

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This contribution reviews some recent results on dimers coupled to CDT. A bijective mapping between dimers and tree-like graphs allows for a simple way to introduce dimers to CDT. This can be generalized further to obtain different multicritical points.

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I would like to thank the Danish Research Council for financial support via the grant “Quantum gravity and the role of Black holes”.

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Glaser, L. (2014). Coupling Dimers to CDT to Obtain Higher Order Multicritical Behavior. In: Bičák, J., Ledvinka, T. (eds) Relativity and Gravitation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2_81

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