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Universality and Conformal Invariance for the Ising Model in Domains with Boundary

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The partition function with boundary conditions for various two-dimensional Ising models is examined and previously unobserved properties of nonformal invariance and universality are established numerically.

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Langlands, R.P., Lewis, MA. & Saint-Aubin, Y. Universality and Conformal Invariance for the Ising Model in Domains with Boundary. Journal of Statistical Physics 98, 131–244 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018674822185

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