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Gaussian free field, random measure and KPZ on R^4
December 08, 2013 (10:40 AM PST - 11:15 AM PST)
Speaker(s):
Linan Chen (McGill University)
Location:
Evans Hall
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Abstract
A highlight in the study of quantum physics was the work of Knizhnik, Polyakov and Zamolodchikov (1988), in which they proposed a relation (KPZ relation) between the scaling dimension of a statistical physics model in Euclidean geometry and its counterpart in the random geometry. More recently, Duplantier and Sheffield (2011) used the 2-dim Gaussian free field to construct the Liouville quantum gravity measure on a planar domain, and gave the first mathematically rigorous formulation and proof of the KPZ relation in that setting. Inspired by the work of Duplantier and Sheffield, we apply a similar approach to extend their results and techniques to higher even dimensions R^(2n) for n>=2.
This talk mainly focuses on the case of R^4. I will briefly introduce the notion of Gaussian free field (GFF). In our work we adopt a specific 4-dim GFF to construct a random Borel measure on R^4 which formally has the density (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) being the exponential of an instance of the GFF. Further we establish a 4-dim KPZ relation corresponding to this random measure. This work is joint with Dmitry Jakobson (McGill University).
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