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We generalize the construction of Compactified Imaginary Liouville Theory (CILT), a non-unitary logarithmic Conformal Field Theory (CFT) defined on closed surfaces, to surfaces with boundary. Starting from a compactified Gaussian Free Field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yang Xiao , Yuxiao Xie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timelike Liouville field theory (also known as imaginary Liouville theory or imaginary Gaussian multiplicative chaos) is expected to describe two-dimensional quantum gravity in a positive-curvature regime, but its path integral is not a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Sourav Chatterjee

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

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

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

We demonstrate that, by utilizing the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) operator algebra of the Liouville CFT, one can express its path-integral on any Riemann surface as a three dimensional path-integral with appropriate boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lin Chen , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang , Bing-Xin Lao

In 1987 Graeme Segal gave a functorial definition of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) that was designed to capture the mathematical essence of the Conformal Bootstrap formalism pioneered in physics by Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov. In Segal's…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

An exact mapping is established between the $c\geq25$ Liouville field theory (LFT) and the Gibbs measure statistics of a thermal particle in a 2D Gaussian Free Field plus a logarithmic confining potential. The probability distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-16 Xiangyu Cao , Pierre Le Doussal , Alberto Rosso , Raoul Santachiara

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

Using Polyakov's functional integral approach with the Liouville action functional defined in \cite{ZT2} and \cite{LTT}, we formulate quantum Liouville theory on a compact Riemann surface X of genus g > 1. For the partition function <X> and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Leon A. Takhtajan , Lee-Peng Teo

We construct a path integral based on the coupling of the Liouville action and the Mabuchi K-energy on a one-dimensional complex manifold. To the best of our knowledge this is the first rigorous construction of such an object and this is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 H. Lacoin , R. Rhodes , V. Vargas

Early efforts to understand complexity in field theory have primarily employed a geometric approach based on the concept of circuit complexity in quantum information theory. In a parallel vein, it has been proposed that certain deformations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Hugo A. Camargo , Michal P. Heller , Ro Jefferson , Johannes Knaute

We propose an optimization procedure for Euclidean path-integrals that evaluate CFT wave functionals in arbitrary dimensions. The optimization is performed by minimizing certain functional, which can be interpreted as a measure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Pawel Caputa , Nilay Kundu , Masamichi Miyaji , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kento Watanabe

Originating in theoretical physics, Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) has been an important topic in probability theory and mathematical physics in the past two decades. In this proceeding, we review two aspects of this topic. The first is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Nina Holden , Xin Sun
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