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Title: Liouville quantum gravity on complex tori

Journal Article · · Journal of Mathematical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4938107· OSTI ID:22479630
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Institut de Physique Théorique, CNRS, URA 2306, CEA, IPhT, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  2. Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée, LAMA, Champs sur Marne (France)
  3. ENS Paris, DMA, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris (France)

In this paper, we construct Liouville Quantum Field Theory (LQFT) on the toroidal topology in the spirit of the 1981 seminal work by Polyakov [Phys. Lett. B 103, 207 (1981)]. Our approach follows the construction carried out by the authors together with Kupiainen in the case of the Riemann sphere [“Liouville quantum gravity on the Riemann sphere,” e-print arXiv:1410.7318]. The difference is here that the moduli space for complex tori is non-trivial. Modular properties of LQFT are thus investigated. This allows us to integrate the LQFT on complex tori over the moduli space, to compute the law of the random Liouville modulus, therefore recovering (and extending) formulae obtained by physicists, and make conjectures about the relationship with random planar maps of genus one, eventually weighted by a conformal field theory and conformally embedded onto the torus.

OSTI ID:
22479630
Journal Information:
Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 57, Issue 2; Other Information: (c) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0022-2488
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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