Eigenvalue amplitudes of the Potts model on a torus

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Abstract: We consider the Q-state Potts model in the random-cluster formulation, defined on finite two-dimensional lattices of size L x N with toroidal boundary conditions. Due to the non-locality of the clusters, the partition function Z(L,N) cannot be written simply as a trace of the transfer matrix T_L. Using a combinatorial method, we establish the decomposition Z(L,N) = sum_{l,D_k} b^{l,D_k} K_{l,D_k}, where the characters K_{l,D_k} = sum_i (lambda_i)^N are simple traces. In this decomposition, the amplitudes b^{l,D_k} of the eigenvalues lambda_i of T_L are labelled by the number l=0,1,...,L of clusters which are non-contractible with respect to the transfer (N) direction, and a representation D_k of the cyclic group C_l. We obtain rigorously a general expression for b^{l,D_k} in terms of the characters of C_l, and, using number theoretic results, show that it coincides with an expression previously obtained in the continuum limit by Read and Saleur.












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