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A conformal bootstrap approach to critical percolation in two dimensions

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

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