Back to Departmental Colloquium: Spring 2001
Departmental Colloquium
Date: Thursday, Mar 1, 2001
Time: 4:15PM
Location: JWB 335
Stanislav Smirnov
Stockholm & Caltech)
Title |
Critical percolation in the plane is conformally invariant |
Abstract |
We will study critical site percolation on triangular lattice in the plane. We will discuss proofs of Cardy’s formula (physical prediction for the probability of rectangle crossings), its conformal invariance, and construction the (conformally invariant) continuum scaling limit. |
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