Gaussian free field light cones and SLE_()

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Abstract: We derive a surprising correspondence between SLEkappa(ho) processes and light cones of the Gaussian free field (GFF). Recall that (one-sided, chordal, origin-seeded) SLEkappa(ho) processes are in some sense the simplest and most natural variants of the Schramm-Loewner evolution. They were originally defined only for ho>2, but one can use L'evy compensation to extend the definition to any ho>2frackappa2 and to obtain qualitatively different curves. The triangle T=(kappa,ho):(2frackappa2)vee(frackappa24)<ho<2 is the primary focus of this paper. When (kappa,ho)inT, the SLEkappa(ho) curves are highly non-simple (and double points are dense) even though kappa<4. Let h be an instance of the GFF. Fix kappain(0,4) and chi=2/sqrtkappasqrtkappa/2. Recall that an imaginary geometry ray is a flow line of ei(h/chi+heta) that looks locally like SLEkappa. The light cone with parameter hetain[0,pi] is the set of points reachable from the origin by a sequence of rays with angles in [heta/2,heta/2]. When heta=0, the light cone looks like SLEkappa, and when heta=pi it looks like the range of an SLE16/kappa. We find that when hetain(0,pi) the light cones are either fractal carpets with a dense set of holes or space-filling regions with no holes. We show that every non-space-filling light cone (with hetain(0,pi] and kappain(0,4)) agrees in law with the range of an SLEkappa(ho) process with (kappa,ho)inT. Conversely, the range of any SLEkappa(ho) with (kappa,ho)inT agrees in law with a non-space-filling light cone. As a consequence, we obtain the first proof that these SLEkappa(ho) processes are continuous and show that they are natural path-valued functions of the GFF.









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