“…This system, which can also interpreted either as 45 o tilted hard-squares of linear size λ = √ 2 or as hard disks of radius √ 2/2, has been extensively studied and here we present some results for the sake of both completeness and comparison. Many different approaches have been used to describe its properties on a square lattice: series expansions [3,5,11,12,13], cluster variational and transfer matrix methods [5,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23], renormalization group [24,25], Monte Carlo simulations [26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33], Bethe lattice [5,34,35,36,37,38], and more recently density functional theory [39]. Moreover, this model has also been considered because of its interesting mathematical [40,41,42] and dynamical [43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,…”