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Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters

Probability 2025-10-08 v1

Abstract

Recently, Ang--Cai--Sun--Wu (2024) determined the three-point connectivity constant for two-dimensional critical percolation, confirming a prediction of Delfino and Viti (2010). In this paper, we address the analogous problem for planar critical qq-state Potts spin clusters. We introduce a continuum three-point connectivity constant and compute it explicitly. Under the scaling-limit conjecture for Potts spin clusters, this quantity coincides with the scaling limit of the properly normalized probability that three points lie in the same spin cluster. The resulting formula agrees with the imaginary DOZZ formula up to an explicit qq-dependent constant with a geometric interpretation. This answers a question from Delfino--Picco--Santachiara--Viti (2013). The proof exploits the coupling between CLE and LQG, together with the BCLE descriptions of qq-state Potts scaling limits due to Miller--Sheffield--Werner (2017) and K\"ohler-Schindler and Lehmk\"uhler (2025).

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@article{arxiv.2510.05850,
  title  = {Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters},
  author = {Gefei Cai and Haoyu Liu and Baojun Wu and Zijie Zhuang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05850},
  year   = {2025}
}

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23 pages

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