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We prove conjectures of Zamolodchikov and Belavin-Belavin in Liouville conformal field theory (CFT), which are generalisations of the celebrated Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov equations known as the higher equations of motion.…

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Sheffield showed that conformally welding a $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface to itself gives a Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) curve with parameter $\kappa = \gamma^2$ as the interface, and Duplantier-Miller-Sheffield proved…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Morris Ang

On a given Riemann surface, we construct a path integral based on the Liouville action functional with imaginary parameters. The construction relies on the compactified Gaussian Free Field (GFF), which we perturb with a curvature term and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes

We propose that there exist generalized Seiberg-Witten equations in the Liouville conformal field theory, which allow the computation of correlation functions from the resolution of certain Ward identities. These identities involve a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-28 Leonid Chekhov , Bertrand Eynard , Sylvain Ribault

The characteristic property of the 2-dimensional Polyakov action is its independence on the metric tensor, without being topological. A renormalizable 4-dimensional action is found satisfying this fundamental property. The fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-18 C. N. Ragiadakos

In this note, we give a unified rigorous construction for the Liouville conformal field theory on compact Riemann surface with boundaries for $\gamma\in (0,2]$ and prove a certain type of Markov property. We also prove some fusion-type…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Baojun Wu

We demonstrate that, by utilizing the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) operator algebra of the Liouville CFT, one can express its path-integral on any Riemann surface as a three dimensional path-integral with appropriate boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lin Chen , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang , Bing-Xin Lao

Inspired by Polyakov's original formulation of quantum Liouville theory through functional integral, we analyze perturbation expansion around a classical solution. We show the validity of conformal Ward identities for puncture operators and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Leon Takhtajan

Initiated by Polyakov in his 1981 seminal work, the study of two-dimensional Liouville Conformal Field Theory has drawn considerable attention over the past decades. Recent progress in the understanding of conformal geometry in dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Baptiste Cerclé

In this paper, we construct Liouville Quantum Field Theory (LQFT) on the toroidal topology in the spirit of the 1981 seminal work by Polyakov. Our approach follows the construction carried out by the authors together with A. Kupiainen in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-17 François David , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Liouville conformal field theory is a prototypical example of an exactly solvable quantum field theory, in the sense that the correlation functions in an arbitrary background can be determined exactly using only the constraints of unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya

In this article we prove smoothness of the correlation functions in probabilistic Liouville Conformal Field Theory. Our result is a step towards proving that the correlation functions satisfy the higher Ward identities and the higher BPZ…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Joona Oikarinen

The computation of the correlation numbers in Minimal Liouville Gravity involves an integration over moduli spaces of complex curves. There are two independent approaches to the calculation: the direct one, based on the CFT methods and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Konstantin Aleshkin , Vladimir Belavin

We continue the study of $(q,p)$ Minimal Liouville Gravity with the help of Douglas string equation. We generalize the results of \cite{Moore:1991ir}, \cite{Belavin:2008kv}, where Lee-Yang series $(2,2s+1)$ was studied, to $(3,3s+p_0)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-12 Alexander Belavin , Boris Dubrovin , Baur Mukhametzhanov

Using probabilistic methods, we first define Liouville quantum field theory on Riemann surfaces of genus $\mathbf{g}\geq 2$ and show that it is a conformal field theory. We use the partition function of Liouville quantum field theory to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Colin Guillarmou , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Liouville Field Theory (LFT for short) is a two dimensional model of random surfaces, which is for instance involved in $2d$ string theory or in the description of the fluctuations of metrics in $2d$ Liouville quantum gravity. This is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Hubert Lacoin , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Toda Conformal Field Theories (CFTs hereafter) are generalizations of Liouville CFT where the underlying field is no longer scalar but takes values in a finite-dimensional vector space induced by a complex simple Lie algebra. The goal of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Baptiste Cerclé , Nathan Huguenin

We study the boundary correlation functions in Liouville theory and in solvable statistical models of 2D quantum gravity. In Liouville theory we derive functional identities for all fundamental boundary structure constants, similar to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Ivan K. Kostov , Benedicte Ponsot , Didina Serban

We derive the conformal Ward identities for the correlation functions of the Stress--Energy tensor in probabilistic Liouville Conformal Field Theory on compact Riemann surfaces by varying the correlation functions with respect to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Joona Oikarinen

We generalize the construction of Compactified Imaginary Liouville Theory (CILT), a non-unitary logarithmic Conformal Field Theory (CFT) defined on closed surfaces, to surfaces with boundary. Starting from a compactified Gaussian Free Field…

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