Planar maps, circle patterns and 2D gravity

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/5MaRDI QIDQ407406zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors François David, Bertrand Eynard

Publication date 1 September 2014

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3123

zbMATH Keywords

2D quantum gravitycircle patternconformal invarianceDelaunay triangulationsKähler geometryrandom mapstopological gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Via circle pattern techniques, random planar triangulations (with angle variables) are mapped onto Delaunay triangulations in the complex plane. The uniform measure on triangulations is mapped onto a conformally invariant spatial point process. We show that this measure can be expressed as: (1) a sum over 3-spanning-trees partitions of the edges of the Delaunay triangulations; (2) the volume form of a K"ahler metric over the space of Delaunay triangulations, whose prepotential has a simple formulation in term of ideal tessellations of the 3d hyperbolic space; (3) a discretized version (involving finite difference complex derivative operators) of Polyakov's conformal Fadeev-Popov determinant in 2d gravity; (4) a combination of Chern classes, thus also establishing a link with topological 2d gravity.

Review text

Summary: Via circle pattern techniques, random planar triangulations (with angle variables) are mapped onto Delaunay triangulations in the complex plane. The uniform measure on triangulations is mapped onto a conformally invariant spatial point process. We show that this measure can be expressed as: {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[(1)] a sum over 3-spanning-trees partitions of the edges of the Delaunay triangulations; \item[(2)] the volume form of a Kähler metric over the space of Delaunay triangulations, whose prepotential has a simple formulation in term of ideal tessellations of the 3d hyperbolic space \(\mathbb H_3\);\item[(3)] a discretized version (involving finite difference complex derivative operators \(\nabla,\bar\nabla\)) of Polyakov's conformal Faddeev-Popov determinant in 2d gravity;\item[(4)] a combination of Chern classes, thus also establishing a link with topological 2d gravity. \end{itemize}}

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