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This article presents an "in-a-nutshell" yet self-contained introductory review on loop quantum gravity (LQG) -- a background-independent, nonperturbative approach to a consistent quantum theory of gravity. Instead of rigorous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-30 Dah-Wei Chiou

In this work, we study the random metric for the critical long-range percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. A recent work by B\"aumler [3] implies the subsequential scaling limit, and our main contribution is to prove that the subsequential limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Jian Ding , Zherui Fan , Lu-Jing Huang

We establish the first scaling limit for FK($q$)-weighted planar maps in the critical case $q=4$, resolving a problem that has remained open since Sheffield's seminal work arXiv:1108.2241. In that work, Sheffield proved a scaling limit for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-12 William Da Silva , Xingjian Hu , Ellen Powell , Mo Dick Wong

We define a three-parameter family of random surfaces in Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) which can be viewed as the quantum version of triangles. These quantum triangles are natural in two senses. First, by our definition they produce the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Morris Ang , Xin Sun , Pu Yu

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

A proper definition of the path integral of quantum gravity has been a long-standing puzzle because the Weyl factor of the Euclidean metric has a wrong-sign kinetic term. We propose a definition of two-dimensional Liouville quantum gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Teresa Bautista , Atish Dabholkar , Harold Erbin

We provide a detailed analysis of the disk path integral of timelike Liouville theory, conceived as a tractable and precise toy-model quantum cosmology in two dimensions. Disk path integrals with the insertion of matter field operators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Dionysios Anninos , Thomas Hertog , Joel Karlsson

Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) and the Brownian map (TBM) are two distinct models of measure-endowed random surfaces. LQG is defined in terms of a real parameter $\gamma$, and it has long been believed that when $\gamma = \sqrt{8/3}$, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield

This is Part II of our project on block-weighted planar maps and Liouville quantum duality. Focusing on the scaling properties at the dual critical point, we derive the conditional distribution of the root block size given the total size,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bertrand Duplantier , Emmanuel Guitter

We study two-dimensional quantum gravity on arbitrary genus Riemann surfaces in the Kaehler formalism where the basic quantum field is the (Laplacian of the) Kaehler potential. We do a careful first-principles computation of the fixed-area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Adel Bilal , Laetitia Leduc

We show that the unit area Liouville quantum gravity sphere can be constructed in two equivalent ways. The first, which was introduced by the authors and Duplantier, uses a Bessel excursion measure to produce a Gaussian free field variant…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Jason Miller , Scott Sheffield

Let $h$ be a log-correlated Gaussian field on $\R^d$, let $\gamma \in (0,\sqrt{2d}),$ let $\mu_h$ be the $\gamma$-Gaussian multiplicative chaos measure, and let $D_h$ be an exponential metric associated with $h$ satisfying certain natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Andres A. Contreras Hip , Ewain Gwynne

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 adopt a novel approach to combine path integral methods with Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Our approach builds upon the recently developed coherent state path integral formulation of LQG to compute the one-loop effective action. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-12 Renata Ferrero , Muxin Han , Hongguang Liu

We present a (mathematically rigorous) probabilistic and geometrical proof of the KPZ relation between scaling exponents in a Euclidean planar domain D and in Liouville quantum gravity. It uses the properly regularized quantum area measure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-16 Bertrand Duplantier , Scott Sheffield

We study fractal properties of support sets of the critical Liouville Quantum Gravity (cLQG) associated with the Gaussian Free Field in planar domains. Specifically, we completely characterize the gauge functions $\phi$ (subject to mild…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Marek Biskup , Stephan Gufler , Oren Louidor

Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surfaces are a family of random fractal surfaces which can be thought of as the canonical models of random two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, in the same sense that Brownian motion is the canonical model…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Ewain Gwynne

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

We describe a theory of quantum gravity which is based on the assumption that the spacetime structure at small distances is given by a piecewise linear (PL) 4-manifold corresponding to a triangulation of a smooth 4-manifold. The fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Aleksandar Mikovic , Marko Vojinovic

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