Liouville quantum gravity on the annulus

DOI10.1063/1.5030409zbMATH Open1398.83029arXiv1711.06547OpenAlexW3102557026WikidataQ129365855 ScholiaQ129365855MaRDI QIDQ4586499FDOQ4586499

Authors: Guillaume Remy 

Publication date: 13 September 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we construct Liouville quantum gravity on an annulus in the complex plane. This construction is aimed at providing a rigorous mathematical framework to the work of theoretical physicists initiated by Polyakov in 1981. It is also a very important example of a conformal field theory (CFT). Results have already been obtained on the Riemann sphere and on the unit disk so this paper will follow the same approach. The case of the annulus contains two difficulties: it is a surface with two boundaries and it has a non-trivial moduli space. We recover the Weyl anomaly - a formula verified by all CFT - and deduce from it the KPZ formula. We also show that the full partition function of Liouville quantum gravity integrated over the moduli space is finite. This allows us to give the joint law of the Liouville measures and of the random modulus and to write the conjectured link with random planar maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06547

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryWeyl anomalyLiouville quantum gravityKnizhnik-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov (KPZ) formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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