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We derive a surprising correspondence between SLE$_{\kappa}(\rho)$ processes and light cones of the Gaussian free field (GFF). Recall that (one-sided, chordal, origin-seeded) SLE$_\kappa(\rho)$ processes are in some sense the simplest and…
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Suppose that $h$ is an instance of the Gaussian free field (GFF) on a simply connected domain $D \subseteq {\mathbf C}$ and $x,y \in \partial D$ are distinct. Fix $\kappa \in (0,4)$ and for each $\theta \in {\mathbf R}$ let $\eta_\theta$ be…
We resolve a conjecture of Sheffield that $\SLE(4)$, a conformally invariant random curve, is the universal limit of the chordal zero-height contours of random surfaces with isotropic, uniformly convex potentials. Specifically, we study the…
The Loewner equation provides a correspondence between continuous real-valued functions $\lambda_t$ and certain increasing families of half-plane hulls $K_t$. In this paper we study the deterministic relationship between specific analytic…
We prove convergence results for variants of Smirnov's fermionic observable in the critical Ising model in presence of free boundary conditions. One application of our analysis is a simple proof of a theorem by Hongler and Kyt\"ol\"a on…
The higher spin interaction currents for the conformally coupled scalar in $AdS_{4}$ space for both regular and irregular boundary condition corresponding to the free and interacting critical point of the boundary O(N) sigma model are…
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We review the construction of ground states focusing on a real scalar field whose dynamics is ruled by the Klein-Gordon equation on a large class of static spacetimes. As in the analysis of the classical equations of motion, when enough…
The Friedland-Hayman inequality is a sharp inequality concerning the growth rates of homogeneous, harmonic functions with Dirichlet boundary conditions on complementary cones dividing Euclidean space into two parts. In this paper, we prove…
We develop a version of dipolar conformal field theory based on the central charge modification of the Gaussian free field with the Dirichlet boundary condition and prove that correlators of certain family of fields in this theory are…
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In the framework of the Lagrangian field theory, we derive a type of new non-classical natural boundary condition to be correlated with the mean curvature of boundary surface. Under the condition of homogeneity and isotropy, this type of…
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