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On Conformal Field Theory and Stochastic Loewner Evolution

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-05 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We describe Stochastic Loewner Evolution on arbitrary Riemann surfaces with boundary using Conformal Field Theory methods. We propose in particular a CFT construction for a probability measure on (clouded) paths, and check it against known restriction properties. The probability measure can be thought of as a section of the determinant bundle over moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Loewner evolutions have a natural description in terms of random walk in the moduli space, and the stochastic diffusion equation translates to the Virasoro action of a certain weight-two operator on a uniformised version of the determinant bundle.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0308020,
  title  = {On Conformal Field Theory and Stochastic Loewner Evolution},
  author = {Roland Friedrich and Jussi Kalkkinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0308020},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX; v2: added section 4.1, references and minor clarifications, version to appear in NPB

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