Scaling limit of the loop-erased random walk Green's function

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Abstract: We consider loop-erased random walk (LERW) running between two boundary points of a square grid approximation of a planar simply connected domain. The LERW Green's function is the probability that the LERW passes through a given edge in the domain. We prove that this probability, multiplied by the inverse mesh size to the power 3/4, converges in the lattice size scaling limit to (a constant times) an explicit conformally covariant quantity which coincides with the SLE(2) Green's function. The proof does not use SLE techniques and is based on a combinatorial identity which reduces the problem to obtaining sharp asymptotics for two quantities: the loop measure of random walk loops of odd winding number about a branch point near the marked edge and a "spinor" observable for random walk started from one of the vertices of the marked edge.


The authors consider a loop-erased random walk, LERW, on a square grid. This measure on self-avoiding paths is obtained by running a simple random walk and successively erasing loops as they form. The authors are interested in the probability that the LERW passes through a given edge of a grid approximation of a simply connected domain \(D\) and this probability is called the LERW edge Green's function in \(D\). It is shown that for edges away from the boundary, this probability, when normalized by the inverse mesh size to the power \(3/4\), converges as the mesh size gets smaller to an explicit conformally covariant function which coincides with the \(\mathrm{SLE}_2\) Green's function.




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