Brownian loops and the central charge of a Liouville random surface

DOI10.1214/21-AOP1558zbMATH Open1489.60014arXiv2005.11845OpenAlexW3028342161MaRDI QIDQ2139101FDOQ2139101

Authors: Morris Ang, Minjae Park, Joshua Pfeffer, Scott Sheffield 

Publication date: 17 May 2022

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore the geometric meaning of the so-called zeta-regularized determinant of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a compact surface, with or without boundary. We relate the $(-c/2)$-th power of the determinant of the Laplacian to the appropriately regularized partition function of a Brownian loop soup of intensity $c$ on the surface. This means that, in a certain sense, decorating a random surface by a Brownian loop soup of intensity $c$ corresponds to weighting the law of the surface by the $(-c/2)$-th power of the determinant of the Laplacian. Next, we introduce a method of regularizing a Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface (with some matter central charge parameter $mathbfc$) to produce a smooth surface. And we show that weighting the law of this random surface by the $(-mathbf{c}^{\prime }/2)$-th power of the Laplacian determinant has precisely the effect of changing the matter central charge from $mathbfc$ to $mathbfc+mathbf{c}^{\prime }$. Taken together with the earlier results, this provides a way of interpreting an LQG surface of matter central charge $mathbfc$ as a pure LQG surface decorated by a Brownian loop soup of intensity $mathbfc$. Building on this idea, we present several open problems about random planar maps and their continuum analogs. Although the original construction of LQG is well-defined only for $mathbfcleq1$, some of the constructions and questions also make sense when $mathbfc>1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11845

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zbMATH Keywords

LaplacianLiouville quantum gravityBrownian loop soup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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