Fluctuations for the Ginzburg-Landau interface model on a bounded domain

Publication date 13 December 2011

Abstract: We study the massless field on

, where

D s u b s e t e q R^{2}

is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, with Hamiltonian

C H (h) = s u m_{x s i m y} C V (h (x) - h (y))

. The interaction

C V

is assumed to be symmetric and uniformly convex. This is a general model for a

(2 + 1)

-dimensional effective interface where

h

represents the height. We take our boundary conditions to be a continuous perturbation of a macroscopic tilt:

h (x) = n x c d o t u + f (x)

for

x i n p a r t i a l D_{n}

,

u i n R^{2}

, and

f c o l o n R^{2} o R

continuous. We prove that the fluctuations of linear functionals of

h (x)

about the tilt converge in the limit to a Gaussian free field on

D

, the standard Gaussian with respect to the weighted Dirichlet inner product

for some explicit

. In a subsequent article, we will employ the tools developed here to resolve a conjecture of Sheffield that the zero contour lines of

h

are asymptotically described by

S L E (4)

, a conformally invariant random curve.

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