Correlations in random cluster model at $q=1$
Combinatorics
2025-07-15 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Probability
Abstract
Let be a measure that samples a subset of a finite ground set, and let be the event that element is sampled. The measure is negatively correlated if for any pair of elements one has . A measure is positively correlated if the direction of the inequality is reversed. For the random cluster model on graphs positive correlation between edges is known for due to the FKG inequality, while the negative correlation is only conjectured for . The main result of this paper is to give a combinatorial formula for the difference in question at . Previously, such a formula was known in the uniform spanning tree case, which is a limit of the random cluster model at .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.09520,
title = {Correlations in random cluster model at $q=1$},
author = {Son Nguyen and Pavlo Pylyavskyy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09520},
year = {2025}
}