A distance exponent for Liouville quantum gravity

DOI10.1007/S00440-018-0846-9zbMATH Open1429.83022arXiv1606.01214OpenAlexW2964157244WikidataQ129908211 ScholiaQ129908211MaRDI QIDQ1740591FDOQ1740591

Authors: Ewain Gwynne, Nina Holden, Xin Sun 

Publication date: 30 April 2019

Published in: Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $gammain(0,2)$ and let $h$ be the random distribution on $mathbbC$ which describes a $gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) cone. Also let $kappa=16/gamm{a}^2>4$ and let $eta$ be a whole-plane space-filling SLE${}_{k}appa$ curve sampled independent from $h$ and parametrized by $gamma$-quantum mass with respect to $h$. We study a family ${mathcal{G}^{e}psilon}_{epsilon>0}$ of planar maps associated with $(h,eta)$ called the extit{LQG structure graphs} (a.k.a. extit{mated-CRT maps}) which we conjecture converge in probability in the scaling limit with respect to the Gromov-Hausdorff topology to a random metric space associated with $gamma$-LQG. In particular, $mathcal{G}^{e}psilon$ is the graph whose vertex set is $epsilonmathbbZ$, with two such vertices $x_1,x_{2}inepsilonmathbbZ$ connected by an edge if and only if the corresponding curve segments $eta([x_1-epsilon,x_1])$ and $eta([x_2-epsilon,x_2])$ share a non-trivial boundary arc. Due to the peanosphere description of SLE-decorated LQG due to Duplantier, Miller, and Sheffield (2014), the graph $mathcal{G}^{e}psilon$ can equivalently be expressed as an explicit functional of a correlated two-dimensional Brownian motion, so can be studied without any reference to SLE or LQG. We prove non-trivial upper and lower bounds for the cardinality of a graph-distance ball of radius $n$ in $mathcal{G}^{e}psilon$ which are consistent with the prediction of Watabiki (1993) for the Hausdorff dimension of LQG. Using subadditivity arguments, we also prove that there is an exponent $chi>0$ for which the expected graph distance between generic points in the subgraph of $mathcal{G}^{e}psilon$ corresponding to the segment $eta([0,1])$ is of order $epsilo{n}^{-chi+o_{e}psilon(1)}$, and this distance is extremely unlikely to be larger than $epsilo{n}^{-chi+o_{e}psilon(1)}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01214

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zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionHausdorff dimensionmetric tensorLiouville quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Brownian motion (60J65) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) (60J67)

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