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$\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity ($\gamma$-LQG) constitutes a family of planar random geometries whose geodesics exhibit intricate fractal behaviour. As is observed in various planar models of random geometry as part of the phenomenon of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Manan Bhatia , Konstantinos Kavvadias

We prove that for each $\gamma \in (0,2)$, there is an exponent $d_\gamma > 2$, the "fractal dimension of $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG)", which describes the ball volume growth exponent for certain random planar maps in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Jian Ding , Ewain Gwynne

We prove that the geodesics associated with any metric generated from Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) which satisfies certain natural hypotheses are necessarily singular with respect to the law of any type of SLE$_\kappa$. These hypotheses…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Jason Miller , Wei Qian

In a groundbreaking work, Duplantier, Miller and Sheffield showed that subcritical Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) coupled with Schramm-Loewner evolutions (SLE) can be described by the mating of two continuum random trees. In this paper, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Juhan Aru , Nina Holden , Ellen Powell , Xin Sun

This is Part II of our project on block-weighted planar maps and Liouville quantum duality. Focusing on the scaling properties at the dual critical point, we derive the conditional distribution of the root block size given the total size,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bertrand Duplantier , Emmanuel Guitter

We establish the first relationship between Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) and Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) in the supercritical (a.k.a. strongly coupled) phase, which corresponds to central charge values $\mathbf c_{\mathrm L} \in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Morris Ang , Ewain Gwynne

For $0<\gamma<2$ and $\delta>0$, we consider the Liouville graph distance, which is the minimal number of Euclidean balls of $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity measure at most $\delta$ whose union contains a continuous path between two…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Jian Ding , Alexander Dunlap

In Liouville quantum gravity (or $2d$-Gaussian multiplicative chaos) one seeks to define a measure $\mu^h = e^{\gamma h(z)} dz$ where $h$ is an instance of the Gaussian free field on a planar domain $D$. Since $h$ is a distribution, not a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Scott Sheffield , Menglu Wang

We consider the $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) model for $\gamma \in (0,2)$, formally described by $e^{\gamma h}$ where $h$ is a Gaussian free field on a planar domain $D$. Sheffield showed that when a certain type of LQG surface,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Liam Hughes , Jason Miller

For $\gamma \in (0,2)$, $U\subset \mathbb C$, and an instance $h$ of the Gaussian free field (GFF) on $U$, the $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface associated with $(U,h)$ is formally described by the Riemannian metric tensor…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Ewain Gwynne , Jason Miller

For $\xi \geq 0$, Liouville first passage percolation (LFPP) is the random metric on $\varepsilon \mathbb Z^2$ obtained by weighting each vertex by $\varepsilon e^{\xi h_\varepsilon(z)}$, where $h_\varepsilon(z)$ is the average of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Ewain Gwynne , Joshua Pfeffer

Recent work has shown that for $\gamma \in (0,2)$, a Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface can be endowed with a canonical metric. We prove several results concerning geodesics for this metric. In particular, we completely classify the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ewain Gwynne

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

Consider a critical ($\gamma=2$) Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) disk together with an independent conformal loop ensemble (CLE) with parameter $\kappa=4$. We show that the critical LQG surfaces parametrized by the regions enclosed by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Morris Ang , Ewain Gwynne

We show that the unit area Liouville quantum gravity sphere can be constructed in two equivalent ways. The first, which was introduced by the authors and Duplantier, uses a Bessel excursion measure to produce a Gaussian free field variant…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield

We present a (mathematically rigorous) probabilistic and geometrical proof of the KPZ relation between scaling exponents in a Euclidean planar domain D and in Liouville quantum gravity. It uses the properly regularized quantum area measure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-16 Bertrand Duplantier , Scott Sheffield

Let $\gamma \in (0,2)$, let $h$ be the planar Gaussian free field, and consider the $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric associated with $h$. We show that the essential supremum of the Hausdorff dimension of the boundary of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Ewain Gwynne

For $\gamma \in (0,2)$, we define a weak $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric to be a function $h\mapsto D_h$ which takes in an instance of the planar Gaussian free field (GFF) and outputs a metric on the plane satisfying a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Julien Dubédat , Hugo Falconet , Ewain Gwynne , Joshua Pfeffer , Xin Sun

We endow the $\sqrt{8/3}$-Liouville quantum gravity sphere with a metric space structure and show that the resulting metric measure space agrees in law with the Brownian map. Recall that a Liouville quantum gravity sphere is a priori…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield

We prove that the Tutte embeddings (a.k.a. harmonic/barycentric embeddings) of certain random planar maps converge to $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity ($\gamma$-LQG). Specifically, we treat mated-CRT maps, which are discretized matings of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Ewain Gwynne , Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield