Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for (0, 2)

DOI10.1007/S00222-020-00991-6zbMATH Open1461.83018arXiv1905.00383OpenAlexW3047223753MaRDI QIDQ2225232FDOQ2225232

Jason Miller, Ewain Gwynne

Publication date: 5 February 2021

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that for each $gammain(0,2)$, there is a unique metric (i.e., distance function) associated with $gamma$-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG). More precisely, we show that for the whole-plane Gaussian free field (GFF) $h$, there is a unique random metric $D_h$ associated with the Riemannian metric tensor "$e^{gammah}(d{x}^2+d{y}^2)$" on $mathbbC$ which is characterized by a certain list of axioms: it is locally determined by $h$ and it transforms appropriately when either adding a continuous function to $h$ or applying a conformal automorphism of $mathbbC$ (i.e., a complex affine transformation). Metrics associated with other variants of the GFF can be constructed using local absolute continuity. The $gamma$-LQG metric can be constructed explicitly as the scaling limit of Liouville first passage percolation (LFPP), the random metric obtained by exponentiating a mollified version of the GFF. Earlier work by Ding, Dub'edat, Dunlap, and Falconet (2019) showed that LFPP admits non-trivial subsequential limits. This paper shows that the subsequential limit is unique and satisfies our list of axioms. In the case when $gamma=sqrt8/3$, our metric coincides with the $sqrt8/3$-LQG metric constructed in previous work by Miller and Sheffield, which in turn is equivalent to the Brownian map for a certain variant of the GFF. For general $gammain(0,2)$, we conjecture that our metric is the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of appropriate weighted random planar map models, equipped with their graph distance. We include a substantial list of open problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00383

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zbMATH Keywords

Liouville quantum gravitytwo-dimensional gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Lists of open problems (00A27)

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