Weak LQG metrics and Liouville first passage percolation

DOI10.1007/S00440-020-00979-6zbMATH Open1469.60054arXiv1905.00380OpenAlexW3036090460MaRDI QIDQ2200501FDOQ2200501

Hugo Falconet, Ewain Gwynne, Xin Sun, Julien Dubédat, Joshua Pfeffer

Publication date: 22 September 2020

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

Abstract: For $gammain(0,2)$, we define a weak $gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric to be a function $hmapsto{D}_h$ which takes in an instance of the planar Gaussian free field (GFF) and outputs a metric on the plane satisfying a certain list of natural axioms. We show that these axioms are satisfied for any subsequential limits of Liouville first passage percolation. Such subsequential limits were proven to exist by Ding-Dub'edat-Dunlap-Falconet (2019). It is also known that these axioms are satisfied for the $sqrt8/3$-LQG metric constructed by Miller and Sheffield (2013-2016). For any weak $gamma$-LQG metric, we obtain moment bounds for diameters of sets as well as point-to-point, set-to-set, and point-to-set distances. We also show that any such metric is locally bi-H"older continuous with respect to the Euclidean metric and compute the optimal H"older exponents in both directions. Finally, we show that LQG geodesics cannot spend a long time near a straight line or the boundary of a metric ball. These results are used in subsequent work by Gwynne and Miller which proves that the weak $gamma$-LQG metric is unique for each $gammain(0,2)$, which in turn gives the uniqueness of the subsequential limit of Liouville first passage percolation. However, most of our results are new even in the special case when $gamma=sqrt8/3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00380

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zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian free fieldLiouville quantum gravityLiouville first passage percolationLQG metric

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)

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