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Crossing probabilities, their densities, and modular forms

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Speaker: 
Peter Kleban
Zugehörigkeit: 
Maine
Datum: 
Fre, 24/02/2012 - 15:30 - 16:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
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 A crossing probability is the probability of finding, in a physical model,
a critical cluster that touches specified boundary arcs; its density
conditions on a point z being in a specified cluster.  We consider various
examples, for percolation and related models, on a rectangle.
Surprisingly, all known crossing formulas have modular properties, being
either modular forms, second-order modular forms or transforming like
Hermitian Jacobi modular functions.  This is unexpected because a rectangle
lacks toroidal symmetry; the origin of this modular behavior is a mystery
 

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