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A conformal bootstrap approach to critical percolation in two dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-20 v2 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study four-point functions of critical percolation in two dimensions, and more generally of the Potts model. We propose an exact ansatz for the spectrum: an infinite, discrete and non-diagonal combination of representations of the Virasoro algebra. Based on this ansatz, we compute four-point functions using a numerical conformal bootstrap approach. The results agree with Monte-Carlo computations of connectivities of random clusters.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07224,
  title  = {A conformal bootstrap approach to critical percolation in two dimensions},
  author = {Marco Picco and Sylvain Ribault and Raoul Santachiara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07224},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, Python code available at https://github.com/ribault/bootstrap-2d-Python, v2: some clarifications and minor improvements

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