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New percolation crossing formulas and second-order modular forms

Mathematical Physics 2009-05-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We consider the three new crossing probabilities for percolation recently found via conformal field theory by Simmons, Kleban and Ziff. We prove that all three of them (i) may be simply expressed in terms of Cardy's and Watts' crossing probabilities, (ii) are (weakly holomorphic) second-order modular forms of weight 0 (and a single particular type) on the congruence group Γ(2)\Gamma(2), and (iii) under some technical assumptions (similar to those used by Kleban and Zagier, are completely determined by their transformation laws. The only physical input in (iii) is Cardy's crossing formula, which suggests an unknown connection between all crossing-type formulas.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1727,
  title  = {New percolation crossing formulas and second-order modular forms},
  author = {Nikolaos Diamantis and Peter Kleban},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1727},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages

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