August 2021 Conformal welding for critical Liouville quantum gravity
Nina Holden, Ellen Powell
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Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 57(3): 1229-1254 (August 2021). DOI: 10.1214/20-AIHP1116

Abstract

Consider two critical Liouville quantum gravity surfaces (i.e., γ-LQG for γ=2), each with the topology of H and with infinite boundary length. We prove that there a.s. exists a conformal welding of the two surfaces, when the boundaries are identified according to quantum boundary length. This results in a critical LQG surface decorated by an independent SLE4. Combined with the proof of uniqueness for such a welding, recently established by McEnteggart, Miller, and Qian (2018), this shows that the welding operation is well-defined. Our result is a critical analogue of Sheffield’s quantum gravity zipper theorem (2016), which shows that a similar conformal welding for subcritical LQG (i.e., γ-LQG for γ(0,2)) is well-defined.

Considérons deux surfaces de gravité quantique de Liouville critiques (c’est-à-dire des surfaces γ-LQG avec γ=2), chacune ayant la topologie de H et avec une longueur de bord infinie. Nous montrons qu’il existe p.s. une soudure conforme des deux surfaces quand les bords sont identifiés selon leur longueur de bord quantique. Ceci résulte en une surface critique LQG décorée d’un SLE4 indépendant. En combinant ceci avec le résultat d’unicité d’une telle soudure, démontré récemment par McEnteggart, Miller, et Qian (2018), nous montrons que l’opération de soudure est bien définie. Notre résultat est un analogue dans le cas critique du théorème de la « fermeture éclair quantique » de Sheffield (2016), qui démontre le résultat similaire que l’opération de soudure conforme pour la LQG sous-critique (c’est-à-dire avec γ(0,2)) est bien définie.

Acknowledgements

N. Holden acknowledges support from Dr. Max Rössler, the Walter Haefner Foundation, and the ETH Zürich Foundation. E. Powell is supported by the SNF grant #175505. Both authors would like to express their thanks to Juhan Aru, for his valuable input towards the initiation and strategy of this project, and for numerous helpful discussions. They also thank an anonymous referee for his or her careful reading of the paper and for helpful comments.

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Nina Holden. Ellen Powell. "Conformal welding for critical Liouville quantum gravity." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 57 (3) 1229 - 1254, August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AIHP1116

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Received: 10 May 2019; Revised: 15 July 2020; Accepted: 22 October 2020; Published: August 2021
First available in Project Euclid: 22 July 2021

MathSciNet: MR4291446
zbMATH: 1483.30029
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/20-AIHP1116

Subjects:
Primary: 30C20 , 60D05 , 60G57 , 60G60 , 60J67

Keywords: Conformal welding , Critical Liouville quantum gravity , Quantum zipper , Schramm–Loewner evolutions

Rights: Copyright © 2021 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

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