Tightness of supercritical Liouville first passage percolation (Q6056477)

Summary: \textit{Liouville first passage percolation (LFPP)} with parameter \(\xi >0\) is the family of random distance functions \(\{D_h^\epsilon\}_{\epsilon >0}\) on the plane obtained by integrating \(e^{\xi h_\epsilon}\) along paths, where \(h_\epsilon\) for \(\epsilon >0\) is a smooth mollification of the planar Gaussian free field. Previous work by Ding-Dubédat-Dunlap-Falconet and Gwynne-Miller has shown that there is a critical value \(\xi_{\text{crit}} > 0\) such that for \(\xi < \xi_{\text{crit}} \), LFPP converges under appropriate re-scaling to a random metric on the plane which induces the same topology as the Euclidean metric (the so-called \(\gamma \)-\textit{Liouville quantum gravity metric} for \(\gamma = \gamma(\xi)\in (0,2))\). We show that for all \(\xi > 0\), the LFPP metrics are tight with respect to the topology on lower semicontinuous functions. For \(\xi > \xi_{\text{crit}} \), every possible subsequential limit \(D_h\) is a metric on the plane which does \textit{not} induce the Euclidean topology: rather, there is an uncountable, dense, Lebesgue measure-zero set of points \(z\in\mathbb{C}\) such that \(D_h(z,w) = \infty\) for every \(w\in\mathbb{C}\setminus \{z\} \). We expect that these subsequential limiting metrics are related to Liouville quantum gravity with matter central charge in \((1,25)\).