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Dipolar SLEs

Mathematical Physics 2011-02-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

We present basic properties of Dipolar SLEs, a new version of stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLE) in which the critical interfaces end randomly on an interval of the boundary of a planar domain. We present a general argument explaining why correlation functions of models of statistical mechanics are expected to be martingales and we give a relation between dipolar SLEs and CFTs. We compute SLE excursion and/or visiting probabilities, including the probability for a point to be on the left/right of the SLE trace or that to be inside the SLE hull. These functions, which turn out to be harmonic, have a simple CFT interpretation. We also present numerical simulations of the ferromagnetic Ising interface that confirm both the probabilistic approach and the CFT mapping.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0411038,
  title  = {Dipolar SLEs},
  author = {M. Bauer and D. Bernard and J. Houdayer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0411038},
  year   = {2011}
}

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22 pages, 4 figures