Ising model: local spin correlations and conformal invariance (Q2414714)

The authors consider the Ising model with spins on the faces of the graph $\Omega_{\delta}$, a discretization of $\Omega$ of mesh size $\delta>0$. The authors obtain infinite-volume limits for arbitrary local pattern probabilities and give their first-order corrections corresponding to what can be expected from the Ising-CFT correspondence. For spin-symmetric and spin-antisymmetric fields, they obtain two convergence results. The main result is the following theorem: ``Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a finite connected set of faces in $\mathbb{Z}^2$ and fix a configuration $\rho\in\{-1,+1\}^{\mathcal{F}}$ and let $\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{Z}^2}$ be the infinite-volume measure of the critical Ising model. Consider the critical Ising model on $\Phi_{\delta}$ with plus boundary conditions, and denote it by $\mathbb{P}_{\Omega_{\delta}}$. Then, as $\delta\rightarrow 0$, we have \[ \mathbb{P}_{\Omega_{\delta}}[\sigma|_{\delta \mathcal{F}}=\rho] = \mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{Z}^2}[\sigma|_{\mathcal{F}}=\rho] + \delta^{\frac{1}{8}}\cdot \text{geometric effect}\ (\rho,\Omega) + o(\delta^{\frac{1}{8}}), \] \[ \mathbb{P}_{\Omega_{\delta}}[\sigma|_{\delta \mathcal{F}}\in\{\pm\rho\}] = \mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{Z}^2}[\sigma|_{\mathcal{F}}\in\{\pm\rho\}] + \delta \cdot \text{geometric effect} \ (\pm\rho,\Omega) + o(\delta). \] The infinite-volume probability and the geometric effects are given in terms of the explicit Pfaffian formulae. Therefore, the authors prove the aforementioned conjecture in the following specific case: it allows one to study the scaling limit of the one-point function of $\delta^{-D}\Phi_{\delta}^{F}$ for $D \leq 1$ in simply-connected domains. The authors define the two-point discrete fermion and spin-fermion via the low-temperature expansion of the Ising model and disorder lines, as well as their full-plane analogues. They prove the Pfaffian formulae expressing \(n\)-point energy correlations,with or without a spin weight, in terms of the real fermion and spin-fermion two-point functions. $n$-point analogues of the two-point fermion and spin-fermion are analyzed. The continuous analogues of the discrete Riemann boundary value problem are introduced.