title: Anchored critical percolation clusters and 2D electrostatics.
abstract: We consider the densities of clusters, at the percolation point of a two-dimensional system, which are anchored in various ways to an edge. These quantities are calculated by use of conformal field theory and computer simulations. We find that they are given by simple functions of the potentials of 2D electrostatic dipoles and that a kind of superposition cum factorization applies. Our results broaden this connection, already known from previous studies, and we present evidence that it is more generally valid. An exact result similar to the Kirkwood superposition approximation emerges.
authors.affiliation: LASST and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA. kleban@maine.edu
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kleban
authors.forename: Jacob J H
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Simmons
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ziff