Taming the GerrymanderβStatistical physi
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Chung-I Chou; S.P. Li
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The Political Districting Problem is mapped to a q-state Potts model in which the constraints can be written as interactions between sites or external fields acting on the system. Districting into q voter districts is equivalent to finding the ground state of this q-state Potts model. We illustrate