Random geometry on the sphere

zbMATH Open1373.60025arXiv1403.7943MaRDI QIDQ5371202FDOQ5371202

Authors: J.-F. Le Gall 

Publication date: 25 October 2017

Abstract: We introduce and study a universal model of random geometry in two dimensions. To this end, we start from a discrete graph drawn on the sphere, which is chosen uniformly at random in a certain class of graphs with a given size $n$, for instance the class of all triangulations of the sphere with $n$ faces. We equip the vertex set of the graph with the usual graph distance rescaled by the factor $n^{-1/4}$. We then prove that the resulting random metric space converges in distribution as $noinfty$, in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense, toward a limiting random compact metric space called the Brownian map, which is universal in the sense that it does not depend on the class of graphs chosen initially. The Brownian map is homeomorphic to the sphere, but its Hausdorff dimension is equal to $4$. We obtain detailed information about the structure of geodesics in the Brownian map. We also present the infinite-volume variant of the Brownian map called the Brownian plane, which arises as the scaling limit of the uniform infinite planar quadrangulation. Finally, we discuss certain open problems. This study is motivated in part by the use of random geometry in the physical theory of two-dimensional quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7943

Recommendations

• Random spheres in a convex body
• On the geometry of random polytopes
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3898035
• Random geometric complexes
• On the geometry of random lemniscates
• Geometric measures for random mosaics in spherical spaces
• Random sections of spherical convex bodies
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2149900
• Random polytopes in a ball

zbMATH Keywords

triangulationgeodesicGromov-Hausdorff convergencegraph distanceBrownian mapplanar mapcontinuum random treeBrownian plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Distance in graphs (05C12)

Cited In (28)

• Random maps and continuum random 2-dimensional geometries
• The Dirichlet problem for orthodiagonal maps
• Random cubic planar graphs converge to the Brownian sphere
• Mini-workshop: Dimers, Ising and spanning trees beyond the critical isoradial case. Abstracts from the mini-workshop held November 15--21, 2020 (online meeting)
• Random tilings of spherical 3-manifolds
• Random infinite squarings of rectangles
• Metric gluing of Brownian and \(\sqrt{8/3}\)-Liouville quantum gravity surfaces
• On the number of planar Eulerian orientations
• An axiomatic characterization of the Brownian map
• Brownian geometry
• Nesting statistics in the \(O(n)\) loop model on random planar maps
• A glimpse of the conformal structure of random planar maps
• Random metric geometries on the plane and Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality
• Emergence of the circle in a statistical model of random cubic graphs
• What is a random surface?
• Local convergence of large random triangulations coupled with an Ising model
• Spine representations for non-compact models of random geometry
• Random walks on mated-CRT planar maps and Liouville Brownian motion
• Random sections of a sphere
• On the non existence of non negative solutions to a critical growth-fragmentation equation
• Geometric and spectral properties of causal maps
• On the structure of random graphs with constant \(r\)-balls
• The Brownian map
• On quasisymmetric embeddings of the Brownian map and continuum trees
• The generating function of planar Eulerian orientations
• Uniqueness of the infinite noodle
• Introduction to the Liouville quantum gravity metric
• Geometric probability on the sphere

This page was built for publication: Random geometry on the sphere

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5371202)