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Based on a recent paper by Takhtajan, we propose a formulation of 2D quantum gravity whose basic object is the Liouville action on the Riemann sphere $\Sigma_{0,m+n}$ with both parabolic and elliptic points. The identification of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Matone

Motivated by Segal's axiom of conformal field theory, we do a survey on geometrical random fields. We do a history of continuous random fields in order to arrive at a field theoretical analog of Klauder's quantization in Hamiltonian quantum…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Rémi Léandre

A model of simplicial quantum gravity in three dimensions is investigated numerically based on the technique of the dynamical triangulation (DT). We are concerned with the surfaces appearing on boundaries (i.e., sections) of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 H. S. Egawa , N. Tsuda

We introduce a general technique for proving estimates for certain random planar maps which belong to the $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) universality class for $\gamma \in (0,2)$. The family of random planar maps we consider are…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Ewain Gwynne , Nina Holden , Xin Sun

Two-dimensional random surfaces are studied numerically by the dynamical triangulation method. In order to generate various kinds of random surfaces, two higher derivative terms are added to the action. The phases of surfaces in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Fujitsu , N. Tsuda , T. Yukawa

2D quantum gravity is the idea that a set of discretized surfaces (called map, a graph on a surface), equipped with a graph measure, converges in the large size limit (large number of faces) to a conformal field theory (CFT), and in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Séverin Charbonnier , Bertrand Eynard , François David

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

Kenyon, Miller, Sheffield, and Wilson (2015) showed how to encode a random bipolar-oriented planar map by means of a random walk with a certain step size distribution. Using this encoding together with the mating-of-trees construction of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Ewain Gwynne , Nina Holden , Xin Sun

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

Harmonic balls are domains which satisfy the mean-value property for harmonic functions. We establish the existence and uniqueness of harmonic balls on Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surfaces using the obstacle problem formulation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Ahmed Bou-Rabee , Ewain Gwynne

We show that for each $\gamma \in (0,2)$, there is a unique metric (i.e., distance function) associated with $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG). More precisely, we show that for the whole-plane Gaussian free field (GFF) $h$, there is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Ewain Gwynne , Jason Miller

Content: 1. Introduction 2. Regge calculus and dynamical triangulations Simplicial manifolds and piecewise linear spaces - dual complex and volume elements - curvature and Regge action - topological invariants - quantum Regge calculus -…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 F. David

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

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

The theory of the 2-dimensional Liouville Quantum Gravity, first introduced by Polyakov in his 1981 work has become a key notion in the study of random surfaces. In a series of articles, David, Huang, Kupiainen, Rhodes and Vargas, on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Baptiste Cerclé

Permutons constructed from a Liouville quantum gravity surface and a pair of space-filling Schramm-Loewner evolutions (SLEs) have been shown -- or are conjectured -- to describe the scaling limit of various natural models of random…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jacopo Borga , Ewain Gwynne

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

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

A manifestly Lorentz-covariant formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is given in terms of finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group. The formulation accounts for discrete symmetries, such as parity and time-reversal, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Cianfrani

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