Field-measure correspondence in Liouville quantum gravity almost surely commutes with all conformal maps simultaneously
Abstract
In Liouville quantum gravity (or -Gaussian multiplicative chaos) one seeks to define a measure where is an instance of the Gaussian free field on a planar domain . Since is a distribution, not a function, one needs a regularization procedure to make this precise: for example, one may let be the average value of on the circle of radius centered at (or an analogous average defined using a bump function supported inside that circle) and then write . If is a conformal map, one can write , where . The measure on is then a.s.\ equivalent to the pullback via of the measure on . Interestingly, although this a.s.\ holds for each \textit{given} , nobody has ever proved that it a.s.\ holds \textit {simultaneously} for all possible . We will prove that this is indeed the case. This is conceptually important because one frequently defines a \textit{quantum surface} to be an equivalence class of pairs (where pairs such as the and above are considered equivalent) and it is useful to know that the set of pairs obtained from the set of pairs in an equivalence class is itself an equivalence class with respect to the usual measure pullback relation.
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@article{arxiv.1605.06171,
title = {Field-measure correspondence in Liouville quantum gravity almost surely commutes with all conformal maps simultaneously},
author = {Scott Sheffield and Menglu Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06171},
year = {2017}
}
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21 pages, 3 figures. All comments are welcome