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Correlations in random cluster model at $q=1$

Combinatorics 2025-07-15 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

Let μ\mu be a measure that samples a subset of a finite ground set, and let Ae\mathcal{A}_e be the event that element ee is sampled. The measure μ\mu is negatively correlated if for any pair of elements e,fe, f one has μ(AeAf)μ(Ae)μ(Af)0\mu(\mathcal{A}_e \cap \mathcal{A}_f) - \mu(\mathcal{A}_e) \mu(\mathcal{A}_f) \leq 0. 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 q1q \geq 1 due to the FKG inequality, while the negative correlation is only conjectured for 0q10 \leq q \leq 1. The main result of this paper is to give a combinatorial formula for the difference in question at q=1q=1. Previously, such a formula was known in the uniform spanning tree case, which is a limit of the random cluster model at q=0q=0.

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}
}
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