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Exploring the phase transition of planar FK-percolation

Probability 2025-03-04 v2

Abstract

The aim of these notes is to give a quick introduction to FK-percolation, focusing on certain recent results about the phase transition of the two dimensional model, namely its continuity or discontinuity depending on the cluster weight qq, and the asymptotic rotational invariance of the critical phase (when the phase transition is continuous). As such, the main focus is on FK-percolation on Z2\mathbb Z^2 with q1q \geq 1, but we do mention some important results valid for general dimension. To favour quick access to recent results, the style is minimal, with certain proofs omitted or left as exercises.

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@article{arxiv.2502.08394,
  title  = {Exploring the phase transition of planar FK-percolation},
  author = {Ioan Manolescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08394},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Lecture notes for a mini-course given at the 2023 CIME summer school "Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic PDEs''