Continuity of the phase transition for planar random-cluster and Potts models with $1\le q\le 4$

Abstract

This article studies the planar Potts model and its random-cluster representation. We show that the phase transition of the nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on ${\mathbb{Z}}^2$ is continuous for $q\in \{2,3,4\}$, in the sense that there exists a unique Gibbs state, or equivalently that there is no ordering for the critical Gibbs states with monochromatic boundary conditions. The proof uses the random-cluster model with cluster-weight $q\ge 1$ (note that $q$ is not necessarily an integer) and is based on two ingredients: 1. The fact that the two-point function for the free state decays sub-exponentially fast for cluster-weights $1\le q\le 4$, which is derived studying parafermionic observables on a discrete Riemann surface. 2. A new result proving the equivalence of several properties of critical random-cluster models: - the absence of infinite-cluster for wired boundary conditions, - the uniqueness of infinite-volume measures, - the sub-exponential decay of the two-point function for free boundary conditions, - a Russo-Seymour-Welsh type result on crossing probabilities in rectangles with arbitrary boundary conditions. The result leads to a number of consequences concerning the scaling limit of the random-cluster model with $1\le q\le 4$. It shows that the family of interfaces (for instance for Dobrushin boundary conditions) are tight when taking the scaling limit and that any sub-sequential limit can be parametrized by a Loewner chain. We also study the effect of boundary conditions on these sub-sequential limits. Let us mention that the result should be instrumental in the study of critical exponents as well.

66 pages, 15 figures

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