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The main purpose of this paper is to compute all irreducible spherical functions on $G={SL}(2,{\mathbb C})$ of arbitrary type $\delta\in \hat K$, where $K={SU}(2)$. This is accomplished by associating to a spherical function $\Phi$ on $G$ a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. A. Grunbaum , I. Pacharoni , J. Tirao

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

We calculate a class of two-point boundary correlators in 2D quantum gravity using its microscopic realization as loop gas on a random surface. We find a perfect agreement with the two-point boundary correlation function in Liouville…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Ivan K. Kostov

Motivated by the prospect of constraining microscopic models, we calculate the exact one-loop corrected de Sitter entropy (the logarithm of the sphere partition function) for every effective field theory of quantum gravity, with particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Dionysios Anninos , Frederik Denef , Y. T. Albert Law , Zimo Sun

This paper is concerned with computing the spectral dimension of 2d-Liouville quantum gravity. As a warm-up, we first treat the simple case of boundary Liouville quantum gravity. We prove that the spectral dimension is 1 via an exact…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

We apply localization techniques to compute the partition function of a two-dimensional N=(2,2) R-symmetric theory of vector and chiral multiplets on S^2. The path integral reduces to a sum over topological sectors of a matrix integral over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Francesco Benini , Stefano Cremonesi

Inspired by a question of Ferrari in the physics context of JT gravity, we introduce and enumerate a combinatorial family of quadrangulations of the disk, called rigid quadrangulations. These form a subclass of the flat quadrangulations in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Timothy Budd

We obtain rigorous results concerning the evaluation of integrals on the two sphere using complex methods. It is shown that for regular as well as singular functions which admit poles, the integral can be reduced to the calculation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alicia Dickenstein , Mirta Susana Iriondo , Teresita Alejandra Rojas

We give a short and rigorous proof of the existence and uniqueness of the solution of Liouville equation with sources, both elliptic and parabolic, on the sphere and on all higher genus compact Riemann surfaces.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Pietro Menotti

The density-matrix and Heisenberg formulations of quantum mechanics follow--for unitary evolution--directy from the Schr"odinger equation. Nevertheless, the symmetries of the corresponding evolution operator, the Liouvillian L=i[.,H], need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alec Maassen van den Brink , A. M. Zagoskin

Quantum Liouville theory is analyzed in terms of the infinite dimensional representations of $U_Qsl(2,C)$ with q a root of unity. Making full use of characteristic features of the representations, we show that vertex operators in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Takashi Suzuki

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 introduce a new 1-matrix model with arbitrary potential and the matrix-valued background field. Its partition function is a $\tau$-function of KP-hierarchy, subjected to a kind of ${\cal L}_{-1}$-constraint. Moreover, partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 S. Kharchev , A. Marshakov , A. Mironov , A. Morozov , A. Zabrodin

Liouville field theory on an unoriented surface is investigated, in particular, the one point function on a RP^2 is calculated. The constraint of the one point function is obtained by using the crossing symmetry of the two point function.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuaki Hikida

Canonical coordinates for both the Schroedinger and the nonlinear Schroedinger equations are introduced, making more transparent their Hamiltonian structures. It is shown that the Schroedinger equation, considered as a classical field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Vilasi

In this paper, we investigate the existence of infinitely many solutions for the following fractional Hamiltonian systems: \begin{eqnarray}\label{eq00} _{t}D_{\infty}^{\alpha}(_{-\infty}D_{t}^{\alpha}u(t)) + L(t)u(t) = & \nabla W(t,u(t))\\…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Amado Méndez , César Torres

We prove a Liouville property for any $f$-harmonic function with polynomial growth on a complete noncompact smooth metric measure space $(M,g,e^{-f}dv)$ when the Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature is nonnegative and its diameter of geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Jia-Yong Wu

We study semiclassical correlation functions in Liouville field theory on a two-sphere when all operators have large conformal dimensions. In the usual approach, such computation involves solving the classical Liouville equation, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-11 Daigo Honda , Shota Komatsu

Zamolodchikov's recursion relations are used to analyze the existence and approximations to the classical conformal block in the case of four parabolic weights. Strong numerical evidence is found that the saddle point momenta arising in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Leszek Hadasz , Zbigniew Jaskolski , Marcin Piatek

Sine dilaton gravity is holographically related to DSSYK. We explain how to interpret sine dilaton as 2d quantum cosmology. This paves the way for using two copies of DSSYK as hologram for Big-Bang cosmologies. We study the most basic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Andreas Blommaert , Adam Levine