Central Charge and Universal Combinations of Amplitudes in Two-Dimensional Theories Away from Criticality
- 27 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 60 (26) , 2709-2711
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.2709
Abstract
For a general isotropic two-dimensional theory near criticality, the universal singular free energy per correlation volume is equal to , where is the central charge of the theory at criticality, is the usual specific-heat exponent, and is defined (for ) in terms of the second moment of the energy correlations. Some generalizations of this result are also noted.
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