Confluence of geodesic paths and separating loops in large planar quadrangulations

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2009/03/P03001MaRDI QIDQ3301027zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bouttier, Emmanuel Guitter

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0509

zbMATH Keywords

correlation functions(theory)exact resultsnetworksrandom graphsrigorous results in statistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

Abstract: We consider planar quadrangulations with three marked vertices and discuss the geometry of triangles made of three geodesic paths joining them. We also study the geometry of minimal separating loops, i.e. paths of minimal length among all closed paths passing by one of the three vertices and separating the two others in the quadrangulation. We concentrate on the universal scaling limit of large quadrangulations, also known as the Brownian map, where pairs of geodesic paths or minimal separating loops have common parts of non-zero macroscopic length. This is the phenomenon of confluence, which distinguishes the geometry of random quadrangulations from that of smooth surfaces. We characterize the universal probability distribution for the lengths of these common parts.

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