Geodesic
Domino tilings and determinants
Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Representation theory, dynamical systems, combinatorial methods. Part XXIII, Tome 421 (2014), pp. 5-18 
V. Aksenov; K. Kokhas. Domino tilings and determinants. Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Representation theory, dynamical systems, combinatorial methods. Part XXIII, Tome 421 (2014), pp. 5-18. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ZNSL_2014_421_a0/
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Consider an arbitrary simply connected squared figure $F$ on the plane and its dual graph (vertices correspond to cells, edges correspond to cells sharing a common side). We investigate the relationship between the determinant of the adjacency matrix of the graph and the domino tilings of the figure $F$. We prove that in the case where all the tilings can be splitted into pairs such that the numbers of vertical dominos in each pair differ by 1, then $\operatorname{det}A_F=0$. And in the case where all the tilings except one can be splitted into such pairs, $\operatorname{det}A_F=(-1)^s$, where $s$ is half the area of the figure $F$.

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