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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

Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) is a one-parameter family of models of random fractal surfaces which first appeared in the physics literature in the 1980s. Recent works have constructed a metric (distance function) on an LQG surface. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Jian Ding , Julien Dubedat , Ewain Gwynne

We investigate the notion of curvature in the context of Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surfaces. We define the Gaussian curvature for LQG, which we conjecture is the scaling limit of discrete curvature on random planar maps. Motivated by…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Andres Contreras Hip , Ewain Gwynne

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

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

Physics considerations suggest that a theory of Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) should exist for all values of matter central charge $\mathbf{c} \in (-\infty,25)$. Probabilists have rigorously defined LQG as a random metric measure space…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Joshua Pfeffer

We prove that the empirical law of eigenvalues of Brownian motion on the Lie Group $\mathrm{GL}(N,\mathbb{C})$ converges almost surely to a deterministic probability measure, characterized by a free stochastic differential equation. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Tatiana Brailovskaya , Nicholas A. Cook , Todd Kemp , Félix Parraud

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

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

For large classes of even-dimensional Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$, we construct and analyze conformally invariant random fields. These centered Gaussian fields $h=h_g$, called co-polyharmonic Gaussian fields, are characterized by their…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Lorenzo Dello Schiavo , Ronan Herry , Eva Kopfer , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We prove the two-dimensional analogue of the asymptotics for Toeplitz determinants with Fisher-Hartwig singularities, for general real symbols. This formula has applications to random normal matrices with complex spectra: (i) the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Paul Bourgade , Guillaume Dubach , Lisa Hartung , Ahmet Keles

Can you hear the shape of Liouville quantum gravity? We obtain a Weyl law for the eigenvalues of Liouville Brownian motion: the $n$-th eigenvalue grows linearly with $n$, with the proportionality constant given by the Liouville area of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Nathanaël Berestycki , Mo Dick Wong

We investigate the underlying quantum group symmetry of 2d Liouville and dilaton gravity models, both consolidating known results and extending them to the cases with $\mathcal{N} = 1$ supersymmetry. We first calculate the mixed parabolic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Yale Fan , Thomas G. Mertens

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

Let $\gamma\in (0,2)$, let $h$ be the planar Gaussian free field, and let $D_h$ be the associated $\gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric. We prove that for any random Borel set $X \subset \mathbb{C}$ which is independent from $h$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Ewain Gwynne , Joshua Pfeffer

The gravitational measure on an arbitrary topological three-manifold is constructed. The nontrivial dependence of the measure on the conformal factor is discussed. We show that only in the case of a compact manifold with boundary the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Pawel O. Mazur

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

The theory of embedded random surfaces, equivalent to two--dimensional quantum gravity coupled to matter, is reviewed, further developed and partly generalized to four dimensions. It is shown that the action of the Liouville field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Schmidhuber , Caltech Ph. D. thesis

We study the boundary correlation functions in Liouville theory and in solvable statistical models of 2D quantum gravity. In Liouville theory we derive functional identities for all fundamental boundary structure constants, similar to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Ivan K. Kostov , Benedicte Ponsot , Didina Serban

Our purpose is to pursue the rigorous construction of Liouville Quantum Field Theory on Riemann surfaces initiated by F. David, A. Kupiainen and the last two authors in the context of the Riemann sphere and inspired by the 1981 seminal work…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Yichao Huang , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas