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Dorn and Otto (1994) and independently Zamolodchikov and Zamolodchikov (1996) proposed a remarkable explicit expression, the so-called DOZZ formula, for the 3 point structure constants of Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT), which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

The purpose of these notes, based on a series of 4 lectures given by the author at IHES, is to explain the recent proof of the DOZZ formula for the three point correlation functions of Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT). We first…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Vincent Vargas

Toda Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) form a family of 2d CFTs indexed by semisimple and complex Lie algebras. They are natural generalizations of the Liouville CFT in that they enjoy an enhanced level of symmetry encoded by W-algebras.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Baptiste Cerclé

Over the past twenty years, the probabilistic approach to Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) has undergone remarkable developments, transforming a collection of ideas at the interface of probability, geometry, complex analysis and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) is an essential building block of Polyakov's formulation of non critical string theory. Moreover, scaling limits of statistical mechanics models on planar maps are believed by physicists to be…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

We prove that the probabilistic definition of the most general boundary three-point and bulk-boundary structure constants in Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT) agree respectively with the formula proposed by Ponsot-Techsner (2002) and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Morris Ang , Guillaume Remy , Xin Sun , Tunan Zhu

Toda Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) form a family of two-dimensional CFTs indexed by semisimple and complex Lie algebras. One of their remarkable features is that they are natural generalizations of Liouville CFT that enjoy an enhanced…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Baptiste Cerclé

David-Kupiainen-Rhodes-Vargas introduced a probabilistic framework based on the Gaussian Free Field and Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos in order to make sense rigorously of the path integral approach to Liouville Conformal Field Theory…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Guillaume Baverez , Mo Dick Wong

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

We propose a probabilistic construction of imaginary Liouville Field Theory based on a real (non-compactified) Gaussian Free Field. We argue that our theory is the first explicit Lagrangian field theory that reproduces the imaginary DOZZ…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Romain Usciati , Colin Guillarmou , Remi Rhodes , Raoul Santachiara

The scaling limit of the probability that $n$ points are on the same cluster for 2D critical percolation is believed to be governed by a conformal field theory (CFT). Although this is not fully understood, Delfino and Viti (2010) made a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Morris Ang , Gefei Cai , Xin Sun , Baojun Wu

Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT) is considered on a simply connected domain with boundary, specializing to the case where the Liouville potential is integrated only over the boundary of the domain. We work in the probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Guillaume Remy , Tunan Zhu

Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models are among the most basic and most studied Conformal Field Theories (CFT). They have had a huge influence not only in physics but also in mathematics, in representation theory and geometry. However their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes

In the paper, we review the recent construction of the Liouville conformal field theory (CFT) from probabilistic methods, and the formalization of the conformal bootstrap. This model has offered a fruitful playground to unify the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes

Correlation functions in Liouville theory are meromorphic functions of the Liouville momenta, as is shown explicitly by the DOZZ formula for the three-point function on the sphere. In a certain physical region, where a real classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-21 Daniel Harlow , Jonathan Maltz , Edward Witten

Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) on the disk describes the conformal factor of the quantum disk, which is the natural random surface in Liouville quantum gravity with disk topology. Fateev, Zamolodchikov and Zamolodchikov (2000)…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Morris Ang , Guillaume Remy , Xin Sun

The possibility of extending the Liouville Conformal Field Theory from values of the central charge $c \geq 25$ to $c \leq 1$ has been debated for many years in condensed matter physics as well as in string theory. It was only recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 Yacine Ikhlef , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

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

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

A rigorous probabilistic construction of Liouville conformal field theory (LCFT) on the Riemann sphere was recently given by David-Kupiainen and the last two authors. In this paper, we focus on the connection between LCFT and the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Hubert Lacoin , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas
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