Virginia Integrable Probability Summer School 2019
Monday, May 27 to Saturday, June 8, 2019
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Dmitry Chelkak - Planar Ising model: from combinatorics to CFT and s-embeddings
Abstract
In theoretical physics, the critical planar Ising model serves as a toy example, in which many precursors of Conformal Field Theory objects and structures exist and can be studied directly in discrete, before passing to the small mesh size limit. Mathematically, a number of results on convergence and conformal invariance of such limits were established during the last decade, both for correlation functions and for interfaces (domain walls) arising in the model. In this mini-course we plan to discuss
- discrete fermions and the Kadanoff-Ceva spin-disorder formalism - crucial tools that allow one to analyse the planar Ising model;
- streamlined version of the classical computation of the magnetization via orthogonal polynomials;
- results on convergence of critical correlation functions (energy densities, spins, ...) in bounded domains to CFT limits;
- recent ideas on appropriate embeddings of weighted planar graphs that play the same role for the planar Ising model as Tutte’s barycentric embeddings do for random walks, allowing one to use discrete complex analysis techniques beyond "regular" lattices.
Files
- Definitions
- Problem Set 1 • deadline: 11pm, Tuesday May 28
- Problem Set 1 solutions
- Problem Set 2 • deadline: 11pm, Wednesday, May 29
- “A small remark on Szego theorems”
- Problem Set 2 solutions
- Problem Set 3 • deadline: 11pm, Friday, May 31
- Problem Set 3 solutions