The triangulation-to-Liouville quantum gravity convergence conjecture

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Let TN\mathcal{T}_{N} be the set of triangulations of the sphere with NN faces, and let TN,3\mathcal{T}_{N,3} be the set of triangulations with NN faces and three marked faces. Equip each triangulation with the standard conformal structure in which every triangle has volume 1/N1/N, and use uniformization, with the three roots sent to prescribed points z1,z2,z3Sz_1,z_2,z_3\in\mathbb{S}, to obtain the deterministic unit-volume measure νT,N\nu_{T,N} on S\mathbb{S}. Define the random measure νN\nu_N by

\mathdsEN[F(νN)]=1ZNTTN,3F(νT,N),\mathds{E}^{N}[F(\nu_N)]=\frac{1}{Z_N}\sum_{T\in\mathcal{T}_{N,3}}F(\nu_{T,N}),

for positive bounded functions FF, where ZN=#TN,3Z_N=\#\mathcal{T}_{N,3}, and denote its law by \mathdsPN\mathds{P}^{N}. Let the unit-volume Liouville measure be the measure given by the construction referenced in the source, with parameters γ=83\gamma=\sqrt{\frac{8}{3}}, n=3n=3, and (zi,αi)=(zi,γ)(z_i,\alpha_i)=(z_i,\gamma). The triangulation-to-Liouville quantum gravity convergence conjecture. Under \mathdsPN\mathds{P}^{N}, the family of random measures (νN)N    1(\nu_N)_{N\;\geqslant\; 1} converges in law as NN\to\infty, in the space of Radon measures equipped with the topology of weak convergence, to the law of this unit-volume Liouville measure. This conjecture gives a precise mathematical formulation of the link between discrete gravity and Liouville quantum gravity, a connection understood by physicists since the 1980s. It was first stated in the cited work of David, Kupiainen, Rhodes, and Vargas; no resolution is supplied in the source.

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Rémi Rhodes and Vincent vargas, “Lecture notes on Gaussian multiplicative chaos and Liouville Quantum Gravity”, arXiv:1602.07323 (2016).

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