Sooty and Sweep creator’s own puppet collection of beloved characters to go to auction

As a lifelong movie and TV fan, I always loved Sooty! The puppets you see today actually belong to Matthew Corbett, who took over from his dad, Harry Corbett. Harry created Sooty – can you believe it? – and hosted ‘The Sooty Show’ for twenty years. He was a real fixture in pretty much every British home back then, and I grew up watching him!


![The study demonstrates that the half-chain bipartite fluctuation, quantified by [latex]F_{A}[/latex], scales logarithmically with system size [latex]L[/latex] for α values between 1.0 and 2.3, and exhibits a power-law behavior with a fitted logarithmic coefficient of [latex]\ell_{2}^{F} = 0.1996(3)[/latex] at [latex]\alpha = 2.48[/latex], ultimately revealing a vanishing power-law exponent at the transition-indicated by setting [latex]\gamma_{\alpha_{c}}[/latex] to zero-and aligning with predictions from spin-wave theory, which posits [latex]F \sim L^{d-z}[/latex] where [latex]z = (\alpha - d)/2[/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2604.20831v1/x5.png)



