GENERALIZED FIBONACCI NUMBERS AND DIMER STATISTICS

We establish new product identities involving the q-analogue of the Fibonacci numbers. We show that the identities lead to alternate expressions of generating functions for close-packed dimers on non-orientable surfaces.

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