@InProceedings{cai_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.23, author = {Cai, Jin-Yi and Liu, Tianyu}, title = {{Counting Perfect Matchings and the Eight-Vertex Model}}, booktitle = {47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)}, pages = {23:1--23:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-138-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {168}, editor = {Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.23}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-124301}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.23}, annote = {Keywords: Approximate complexity, the eight-vertex model, counting perfect matchings} }