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The metric associated with the Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface has been constructed through a series of recent works and several properties of its associated geodesics have been studied. In the current article we confirm the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Zherui Fan , Subhajit Goswami

In order to study the quantum geometry of random surfaces in Liouville gravity, we propose a definition of geodesic distance associated to a Gaussian free field on a regular lattice. This geodesic distance is used to numerically determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-13 Jan Ambjorn , Timothy Budd

A Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface is a natural random two-dimensional surface, initially formulated as a random measure space and later as a random metric space. We show that the LQG measure can be recovered as the Minkowski measure…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Ewain Gwynne , Jinwoo Sung

Recent works have shown that there is a canonical way to to assign a metric (distance function) to a Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface for any parameter $\gamma \in (0,2)$. We establish a strong confluence property for LQG geodesics,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Ewain Gwynne , Joshua Pfeffer , Scott Sheffield

First passage percolation (FPP) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ or $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a canonical model of a random metric space where the standard Euclidean geometry is distorted by random noise. Of central interest is the length and the geometry of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Riddhipratim Basu , Manan Bhatia , Shirshendu Ganguly

Quantum Loewner evolution (QLE)$(\gamma^2, \eta)$ is a family of growth processes in random environments, introduced by Miller and Sheffield (arXiv:1312.5745) as candidate scaling limits of growth processes (such as diffusion-limited…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Morris Ang , Deven Mithal

Previous works in this series have shown that an instance of a $\sqrt{8/3}$-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…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield

We give a concise presentation of the construction of the Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, i.e., the spectrum associated to the infinitesimal generator of Liouville Brownian motion, the canonical diffusion in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Nathanaël Berestycki

When gauge field theory coherent states for loop quantum gravity (LQG) were introduced, an optimized semiclassical proper length emerged, corresponding to the edge length $\epsilon$ of a graph embedded in a given classical geometry. Here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-20 Paul G. N. de Vegvar

We study the volume of metric balls in Liouville quantum gravity (LQG). For $\gamma \in (0,2)$, it has been known since the early work of Kahane (1985) and Molchan (1996) that the LQG volume of Euclidean balls has finite moments exactly for…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Morris Ang , Hugo Falconet , Xin Sun

We give a simple set of geometric conditions on curves $\eta$, $\tilde{\eta}$ in ${\mathbf H}$ from $0$ to $\infty$ so that if $\varphi \colon {\mathbf H} \to {\mathbf H}$ is a homeomorphism which is conformal off $\eta$ with $\varphi(\eta)…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Oliver McEnteggart , Jason Miller , Wei Qian

The search for scale-invariant random geometries is central to the Asymptotic Safety hypothesis for the Euclidean path integral in quantum gravity. In an attempt to uncover new universality classes of scale-invariant random geometries that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Timothy Budd , Alicia Castro

We show that when one draws a simple conformal loop ensemble (CLE$_\kappa$ for $\kappa \in (8/3,4)$) on an independent $\sqrt{\kappa}$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface and explores the CLE in a natural Markovian way, the quantum…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield , Wendelin Werner

We study Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surfaces whose law has been reweighted according to nesting statistics for a conformal loop ensemble (CLE) relative to $n\in \mathbb{N}_0$ marked points $z_1,\dots,z_n$. The idea is to consider a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Nina Holden , Matthis Lehmkuehler

Discrete and continuum Liouville first passage percolation (DLFPP, LFPP) are two approximations of the conjectural $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric, obtained by exponentiating the discrete Gaussian free field (GFF) and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Morris Ang

We establish the first connection between $2d$ Liouville quantum gravity and natural dynamics of random matrices. In particular, we show that if $(U_t)$ is a Brownian motion on the unitary group at equilibrium, then the measures $$…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Paul Bourgade , Hugo Falconet

We prove that for any metric which one can associate with a Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface for $\gamma \in (0,2)$ satisfying certain natural axioms, its geodesics exhibit the following confluence property. For any fixed point $z$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Ewain Gwynne , Jason Miller

We embark on the vast program of integrating the dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Adopting the strategy of decomposing spin network states into small blocks of (quantum) geometry which can later be glued back together, we focus on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Mehdi Assanioussi , Etera R. Livine

Let $h$ be the planar Gaussian free field and let $D_h$ be a supercritical Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric associated with $h$. Such metrics arise as subsequential scaling limits of supercritical Liouville first passage percolation…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Jian Ding , Ewain Gwynne

We consider the metric growth in Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) for $\gamma \in (0,2)$. We show that a process associated with the trace of the free field on the boundary of a filled LQG ball is stationary, for every $\gamma \in (0,2)$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Julien Dubédat , Hugo Falconet