Weak LQG metrics and Liouville first passage percolation

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Dubedat, Julien; Falconet, Hugo; Gwynne, Ewain; Pfeffer, Joshua; Sun, Xin
• 署名单位: Columbia University; University of Cambridge; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0178-8051
• DOI: 10.1007/s00440-020-00979-6
• 发表日期: 2020

摘要

For gamma is an element of (0, 2), we define a weak gamma-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) metric to be a function h -> D-h which takes in an instance of the planar Gaussian free field and outputs a metric on the plane satisfying a certain list of natural axioms. We showthat these axioms are satisfied for any subsequential limits of Liouville first passage percolation. Such subsequential limits were proven to exist by Ding et al. (Tightness of Liouville first passage percolation for gamma is an element of (0, 2), 2019. ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1904.08021). It is also known that these axioms are satisfied for the root 8/3-LQG metric constructed by Miller and Sheffield (2013-2016). For any weak gamma-LQG metric, we obtain moment bounds for diameters of sets as well as point-to-point, set-to-set, and point-to-set distances. We also show that any such metric is locally bi-Holder continuous with respect to the Euclidean metric and compute the optimal Holder exponents in both directions. Finally, we show that LQG geodesics cannot spend a long time near a straight line or the boundary of a metric ball. These results are used in subsequent work by Gwynne and Miller which proves that the weak gamma-LQG metric is unique for each gamma is an element of (0, 2), which in turn gives the uniqueness of the subsequential limit of Liouville first passage percolation. However, most of our results are new even in the special case when gamma = root 8/3.