Discontinuity of the phase transition for the planar random-cluster and Potts models with q>4

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Abstract: We prove that the q-state Potts model and the random-cluster model with cluster weight q>4 undergo a discontinuous phase transition on the square lattice. More precisely, we show - Existence of multiple infinite-volume measures for the critical Potts and random-cluster models, - Ordering for the measures with monochromatic (resp. wired) boundary conditions for the critical Potts model (resp. random-cluster model), and - Exponential decay of correlations for the measure with free boundary conditions for both the critical Potts and random-cluster models. The proof is based on a rigorous computation of the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalues of the diagonal blocks of the transfer matrix of the six-vertex model, whose ratios are then related to the correlation length of the random-cluster model. As a byproduct, we rigorously compute the correlation lengths of the critical random-cluster and Potts models, and show that they behave as exp(pi2/sqrtq−4) as q tends to 4.





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