  We discuss the two- and three-point correlators in the two-dimensional
three-state Potts model in the high-temperature phase of the model. By using
the form factor approach and perturbed conformal field theory methods we are
able to describe both the large distance and the short distance behaviours of
the correlators. We compare our predictions with a set of high precision
Monte-Carlo simulations (performed on the triangular lattice realization of the
model) finding a complete agreement in both regimes. In particular we use the
two-point correlators to fix the various non-universal constants involved in
the comparison (whose determination is one of the results of our analysis) and
then use these constants to compare numerical results and theoretical
predictions for the three-point correlator with no free parameter. Our results
can be used to shed some light on the behaviour of the three-quark correlator
in the confining phase of the (2+1)-dimensional SU(3) lattice gauge theory
which is related by dimensional reduction to the three-spin correlator in the
high-temperature phase of the three-state Potts model. The picture which
emerges is that of a smooth crossover between a \Delta type law at short
distances and a Y type law at large distances.

High Energy Physics - Theory;Statistical Mechanics;High Energy Physics - Lattice