A Test of a Conjecture of Cardy

In reference to Werner's measure on self-avoiding loops on Riemann surfaces, Cardy conjectured a formula for the measure of all homotopically nontrivial loops in a finite type annular region with modular parameter . Ang, Remy, and Sun have announced a proof of this conjecture using random confo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2025
Hauptverfasser: Higgs, Van, Pickrell, Doug
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description In reference to Werner's measure on self-avoiding loops on Riemann surfaces, Cardy conjectured a formula for the measure of all homotopically nontrivial loops in a finite type annular region with modular parameter . Ang, Remy, and Sun have announced a proof of this conjecture using random conformal geometry. Cardy's formula implies that the measure of the set of homotopically nontrivial loops in the punctured plane that intersect ¹ equals 2π/√3. This set is the disjoint union of the set of loops that avoid a ray from the unit circle to infinity and its complement. There is an inclusion/exclusion sum which, in the limit, calculates the measure of the set of loops that avoid a ray. Each term in the sum involves finding the transfinite diameter of a slit domain. This is numerically accessible using the remarkable Schwarz-Christoffel package developed by Driscoll and Trefethen. Our calculations suggest this sum is around π, consistent with Cardy's formula.
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A Test of a Conjecture of Cardy. Van Higgs and Doug Pickrell. SIGMA 21 (2025), 034, 12 pages
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2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 60J67; 30C20; 65E10
arXiv:2401.03600
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/213181
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2025.034
In reference to Werner's measure on self-avoiding loops on Riemann surfaces, Cardy conjectured a formula for the measure of all homotopically nontrivial loops in a finite type annular region with modular parameter . Ang, Remy, and Sun have announced a proof of this conjecture using random conformal geometry. Cardy's formula implies that the measure of the set of homotopically nontrivial loops in the punctured plane that intersect ¹ equals 2π/√3. This set is the disjoint union of the set of loops that avoid a ray from the unit circle to infinity and its complement. There is an inclusion/exclusion sum which, in the limit, calculates the measure of the set of loops that avoid a ray. Each term in the sum involves finding the transfinite diameter of a slit domain. This is numerically accessible using the remarkable Schwarz-Christoffel package developed by Driscoll and Trefethen. Our calculations suggest this sum is around π, consistent with Cardy's formula.
We thank Toby Driscoll for help with using the SC package for slit domains, and the referees for comments that improved the exposition.
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