(1) Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 100, F-91405 Orsay, France;(2) Departamento de Física Teórica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
Abstract:
We study the chromatic polynomials for m×n square-lattice strips, of width 9m13 (with periodic boundary conditions) and arbitrary length n (with free boundary conditions). We have used a transfer matrix approach that allowed us also to extract the limiting curves when n. In this limit we have also obtained the isolated limiting points for these square-lattice strips and checked some conjectures related to the Beraha numbers.