Stationary random metrics on hierarchical graphs via (,+)-type recursive distributional equations

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2650-7MaRDI QIDQ2630729zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail Khristoforov, Michele Triestino, Victor Kleptsyn

Publication date 21 July 2016

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6116

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Self-similar stochastic processes (60G18) Random measures (60G57) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: This paper is inspired by the problem of understanding in a mathematical sense the Liouville quantum gravity on surfaces. Here we show how to define a stationary random metric on self-similar spaces which are the limit of nice finite graphs: these are the so-called hierarchical graphs. They possess a well-defined level structure and any level is built using a simple recursion. Stopping the construction at any finite level, we have a discrete random metric space when we set the edges to have random length (using a multiplicative cascade with fixed law $m$). We introduce a tool, the cut-off process, by means of which one finds that renormalizing the sequence of metrics by an exponential factor, they converge in law to a non-trivial metric on the limit space. Such limit law is stationary, in the sense that glueing together a certain number of copies of the random limit space, according to the combinatorics of the brick graph, the obtained random metric has the same law when rescaled by a random factor of law $m$. In other words, the stationary random metric is the solution of a distributional equation. When the measure $m$ has continuous positive density on $mathbf{R}_{+}$, the stationary law is unique up to rescaling and any other distribution tends to a rescaled stationary law under the iterations of the hierarchical transformation. We also investigate topological and geometric properties of the random space when $m$ is $log$-normal, detecting a phase transition influenced by the branching random walk associated to the multiplicative cascade.

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