Universality for SLE(4)

Publication date 7 October 2010

Abstract: We resolve a conjecture of Sheffield that

S L E (4)

, a conformally invariant random curve, is the universal limit of the chordal zero-height contours of random surfaces with isotropic, uniformly convex potentials. Specifically, we study the emph{Ginzburg-Landau

a b l a p h i

interface model} or emph{anharmonic crystal} on

for

D s u b s e t e q C

a bounded, simply connected Jordan domain with smooth boundary. This is the massless field with Hamiltonian

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

with

C V

symmetric and uniformly convex and

h (x) = p h i (x)

for

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

,

p h i c o l o n p a r t i a l D_{n} o R

a given function. We show that the macroscopic chordal contours of

h

are asymptotically described by

S L E (4)

for appropriately chosen

p h i

.

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