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Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III: the conformal structure is determined

Probability 2020-11-23 v3 Mathematical Physics Complex Variables math.MP

Abstract

Previous works in this series have shown that an instance of a 8/3\sqrt{8/3}-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) sphere has a well-defined distance function, and that the resulting metric measure space (mm-space) agrees in law with the Brownian map (TBM). In this work, we show that given just the mm-space structure, one can a.s. recover the LQG sphere. This implies that there is a canonical way to parameterize an instance of TBM by the Euclidean sphere (up to M\"obius transformation). In other words, an instance of TBM has a canonical conformal structure. The conclusion is that TBM and the 8/3\sqrt{8/3}-LQG sphere are equivalent. They ultimately encode the same structure (a topological sphere with a measure, a metric, and a conformal structure) and have the same law. From this point of view, the fact that the conformal structure a.s. determines the metric and vice-versa can be understood as a property of this unified law. The results of this work also imply that the analogous facts hold for Brownian and 8/3\sqrt{8/3}-LQG surfaces with other topologies.

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@article{arxiv.1608.05391,
  title  = {Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III: the conformal structure is determined},
  author = {Jason Miller and Scott Sheffield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05391},
  year   = {2020}
}

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