Two-valued local sets of the 2D continuum Gaussian free field: connectivity, labels, and induced metrics

DOI10.1214/18-EJP182zbMATHOpenAlexMaRDI QIDQ1663884FDO

Authors Juhan Aru, A. Sepulveda

Publication date 24 August 2018

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03828

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian free fieldSchramm-Loewner evolutionconformal loop ensemblelevel lineslevel set percolationlocal setstwo-valued local setsXOR-IsingLévy transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Random fields (60G60) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67)

Abstract: We study two-valued local sets, $mathbb{A}_{-a,b}$, of the two-dimensional continuum Gaussian free field (GFF) with zero boundary condition in simply connected domains. Intuitively, $mathbb{A}_{-a,b}$ is the (random) set of points connected to the boundary by a path on which the values of the GFF remain in $[-a,b]$. For specific choices of the parameters $a,b$ the two-valued sets have the law of the CLE${}_4$ carpet, the law of the union of level lines between all pairs of boundary points, or, conjecturally, the law of the interfaces of the scaling limit of XOR-Ising model. Two-valued sets are the closure of the union of countably many SLE${}_4$ type of loops, where each loop comes with a label equal to either $-a$ or $b$. One of the main results of this paper describes the connectivity properties of these loops. Roughly, we show that all the loops are disjoint if $a+bgeq4lambda$, and that their intersection graph is connected if $a+b<4lambda$. This also allows us to study the labels (the heights) of the loops. We prove that the labels of the loops are a function of the set $mathbb{A}_{-a,b}$ if and only if $aeqb$ and $2lambdaleqa+b<4lambda$ and that the labels are independent given the set if and only if $a=b=2lambda$. We also show that the threshold for the level-set percolation in the 2D continuum GFF is $-2lambda$. Finally, we discuss the coupling of the labelled CLE${}_4$ with the GFF. We characterise this coupling as a specific local set coupling, and show how to approximate these local sets. We further see how in these approximations the labels naturally encode distances to the boundary.

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