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Approximation of length metrics by conformally flat Riemannian metrics

Differential Geometry 2024-11-01 v1 Metric Geometry Probability

Abstract

We present a proof of the folklore result that any length metric on Rd\mathbb R^d can be approximated by conformally flat Riemannian distance functions in the uniform distance. This result is used to study Liouville quantum gravity in another paper by the same authors.

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@article{arxiv.2410.23304,
  title  = {Approximation of length metrics by conformally flat Riemannian metrics},
  author = {Andres A. Contreras Hip and Ewain Gwynne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.23304},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2305.15588