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Field-measure correspondence in Liouville quantum gravity almost surely commutes with all conformal maps simultaneously

Probability 2017-03-28 v2

Abstract

In Liouville quantum gravity (or 2d2d-Gaussian multiplicative chaos) one seeks to define a measure μh=eγh(z)dz\mu^h = e^{\gamma h(z)} dz where hh is an instance of the Gaussian free field on a planar domain DD. Since hh is a distribution, not a function, one needs a regularization procedure to make this precise: for example, one may let hϵ(z)h_\epsilon(z) be the average value of hh on the circle of radius ϵ\epsilon centered at zz (or an analogous average defined using a bump function supported inside that circle) and then write μh=limϵ0ϵγ22eγhϵ(z)dz\mu^h = \lim_{\epsilon \to 0} \epsilon^{\frac{\gamma^2}{2}} e^{\gamma h_\epsilon(z)} dz. If ϕ:D~D\phi: \tilde D \to D is a conformal map, one can write h~=hϕ+Qlogϕ\tilde h = h \circ \phi + Q \log |\phi'|, where Q=2/γ+γ/2Q = 2/\gamma + \gamma/2. The measure μh~\mu^{\tilde h} on D~\tilde D is then a.s.\ equivalent to the pullback via ϕ1\phi^{-1} of the measure μh\mu^h on DD. Interestingly, although this a.s.\ holds for each \textit{given} ϕ\phi, nobody has ever proved that it a.s.\ holds \textit {simultaneously} for all possible ϕ\phi. 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 (D,h)(D, h) (where pairs such as the (D,h)(D,h) and (D~,h~)(\tilde D, \tilde h) above are considered equivalent) and it is useful to know that the set of pairs (D,μh)(D,\mu^{h}) obtained from the set of pairs (D,h)(D,h) 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}
}

Comments

21 pages, 3 figures. All comments are welcome