Finite-size corrections for universal boundary entropy in bond percolation

Dear Editor,

We enclose our revised manuscript and give detailed responses to the referee reports below.

Reply to referee 1:

Thank you for your kind comments. We have included the proposed reference and fixed up the typos.

Reply to referee 2:

Thank you for your detailed and valuable report. As several results are scattered in existing literature, we made a conscious choice to try and unify these by explicitly indicating links to other papers and explain differences in notation.

1 To avoid a precise explanation which would interrupt the flow we now omit the bra-ket notation in (10) and simply define the norm as the sum over components.

2 Fixed

3 Added, thanks for this suggestion

4 We have included a sign factor $\varepsilon_{n,x}$ in (20) and (24)

5 Fixed

6 Fixed in both places

7 Fixed -- come to think of it $a_1$ should always equal 1, so $j$ is in ${2,...,n}$.

8 Fixed

9 Thank you for the simpler expression, which has been included... however we believe that our original expression was correct and equal to this one.

10 Interesting question which had crossed our minds as well. We suspect that there should be a differential equation for the reflecting case, but preliminary attempts to find one indicate that it will not be as simple as the hypergeometric equation for the periodic case. We leave this for future study.

11 Yes. Thanks for catching this. A sentence has been added to Proposition 1.

12 Fixed

13 Fixed. Thanks for catching this!

14 This is an astute observation and a good question to which we currently don't have a clear answer.

15 We have added a whole new section (4.3) discussing the CFT argument for the even periodic case.

16 The case of distinct connectivities is indeed very interesting and we believe an extension to this case is possible. Like the odd periodic case we refer this to future study.

17 Yes, and yes. Fixed with an extra sentence below what is now equation (118).

- Sec 1, para 5: Added sentence about the entanglement entropy of the stochastic raise-and-peel model
- Eq (10): Removed bra-ket notation (Ref 2 point 1)
- Eq (10): Capitalised $\Psi$, cf Ref 1 point 1
- Eq (12): Changed, cf Ref 2 points 2&3
- Sec 1.3, para after eq (12): Added "precisely"
- Eq (20): Added sign factor, cf Ref 2 point 4
- Prop 1: Added caveat, cf Ref 2 point 11
- Sec 2.2.1, final para: Added reference, cf Ref 1 requested change
- Eq (24): Added sign factor, cf Ref 2 point 4
- Sec 2.2.2, final para: Added `be', cf Ref 1 point 2
- Proof of Prop 3, para 1: changed $x^{n-1}$ to $x^n$, cf Ref 2 point 5
- Proof of Prop 3, para 1: added $\tau$, cf Ref 2 point 6
- Proof of Prop 3, para 2: changed specification of $a_j$, cf Ref 2 point 7
- Proof of Prop 3, final para: added $x^n$, cf Ref 2 point 8
- Proof of Prop 3, final para: added $\tau$, cf Ref 2 point 6
- Eq (45): changed prefactor, cf Ref 2 point 9
- Sec 4.1, before eq (46): Added reference
- Eq (48): changed $\mathcal{O}(n^{-3})$ to $\mathcal{O}(n^{-2})$, cf Ref 2 point 12
- Eq (52): changed $\log(x)$ to $\log|x|$, cf Ref 2 point 13
- Section 4.3 has been added, explaining conformal reasoning behind the results for the even periodic case. Cf Ref 2 point 15
- Sec 5, para 2: Added some words about precision of numerical data
- App D: Incorporated information for $x\leq-1$, cf Ref 2 point 17