arXiv:hep-th/0302056 · Workshop on Integrable Theories, Solitons and Duality

Universal ratios and correlation functions

Giuseppe Mussardo, Gesualdo Delfino A

Published Dec 1, 2002• 2 citations

Abstract

We review some recent results concerning the quantitative analysis of the universality classes of two-dimensional statistical models near their critical point.We also discuss the exact calculation of the two-point correlation functions of disorder operators in a free theory of complex bosonic and fermionic field, correlators ruled by a Painlevè differential equation.

DOI: 10.22323/1.008.0007

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