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arXiv:hep-th/9904088

Universality and conformal invariance for the Ising model in domains with boundary

R. P. Langlands, Marc-André Lewis, Yvan Saint-Aubin

Published Apr 13, 1999• 4 citations
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Abstract

The partition function with boundary conditions for various two-dimensional Ising models is examined and previously unobserved properties of conformal invariance and universality are established numerically.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9904088

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