Form Factors of the Tricritical Three-state Potts Model in its Scaling Limit

Abstract

We compute the form factors of the order and disorder operators, together with those of the stress-energy tensor, of the two-dimensional three-state Potts model with vacancies along its thermal deformation of the critical point. At criticality the model is described by the non-diagonal partition function of the unitary minimal model ${\mathcal{M}}_{6,7}$ of conformal field theories and is accompanied by an internal $S_3$ symmetry. Its off-critical thermal deformation is an integrable massive theory which is still invariant under $S_3$. The presence of infinitely many conserved quantities, whose spin spectrum is related to the exceptional Lie algebra $E_6$, allows us to determine the analytic $S$-matrix, the exact mass spectrum and the matrix elements of local operators of this model in an exact non-perturbative way. We use the spectral representation series of the correlators and the fast convergence of these series to compute several universal ratios of the renormalization group.

Comments: 28 pages, 8 figures; v2: minor corrections, according to referee suggestions: version published in the journal