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Topics on abelian spin models and related problems

Julien Dubédat, Columbia University


Abstract
In these notes, we discuss a selection of topics on several models of planar statistical mechanics. We consider the Ising, Potts, and more generally abelian spin models; the discrete Gaussian free field; the random cluster model; and the six-vertex model. Emphasis is put on duality, order, disorder and spinor variables, and on mappings between these models.

AMS 2000 subject classifications: Primary 60G15, 82B20.

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Dubédat, Julien, Topics on abelian spin models and related problems, Probability Surveys, 8, (2011), 374-402 (electronic). DOI: 10.1214/11-PS187.

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