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CLE PERCOLATIONS

Part of: Equilibrium statistical mechanics Special processes Markov processes Quantum field theory; related classical field theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2017

JASON MILLER ,
SCOTT SHEFFIELD  and
WENDELIN WERNER
JASON MILLER
Affiliation:
Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, UK; jpmiller@statslab.cam.ac.uk
SCOTT SHEFFIELD
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; sheffield@math.mit.edu
WENDELIN WERNER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Rämistr. 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; wendelin.werner@math.ethz.ch

Abstract

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Conformal loop ensembles (CLEs) are random collections of loops in a simply connected domain, whose laws are characterized by a natural conformal invariance property. The set of points not surrounded by any loop is a canonical random connected fractal set — a random and conformally invariant analog of the Sierpinski carpet or gasket.

In the present paper, we derive a direct relationship between the CLEs with simple loops ($\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$ for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}\in (8/3,4)$, whose loops are Schramm’s $\text{SLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$-type curves) and the corresponding CLEs with nonsimple loops ($\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$ with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }:=16/\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}\in (4,6)$, whose loops are $\text{SLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$-type curves). This correspondence is the continuum analog of the Edwards–Sokal coupling between the $q$-state Potts model and the associated FK random cluster model, and its generalization to noninteger $q$.

Like its discrete analog, our continuum correspondence has two directions. First, we show that for each $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}\in (8/3,4)$, one can construct a variant of $\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$ as follows: start with an instance of $\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$, then use a biased coin to independently color each $\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$ loop in one of two colors, and then consider the outer boundaries of the clusters of loops of a given color. Second, we show how to interpret $\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$ loops as interfaces of a continuum analog of critical Bernoulli percolation within $\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$ carpets — this is the first construction of continuum percolation on a fractal planar domain. It extends and generalizes the continuum percolation on open domains defined by $\text{SLE}_{6}$ and $\text{CLE}_{6}$.

These constructions allow us to prove several conjectures made by the second author and provide new and perhaps surprising interpretations of the relationship between CLEs and the Gaussian free field. Along the way, we obtain new results about generalized $\text{SLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C})$ curves for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}<-2$, such as their decomposition into collections of $\text{SLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$-type ‘loops’ hanging off of $\text{SLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$-type ‘trunks’, and vice versa (exchanging $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }$). We also define a continuous family of natural $\text{CLE}$ variants called boundary conformal loop ensembles (BCLEs) that share some (but not all) of the conformal symmetries that characterize $\text{CLE}$s, and that should be scaling limits of critical models with special boundary conditions. We extend the $\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$/$\text{CLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$ correspondence to a $\text{BCLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}}$/$\text{BCLE}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }}$ correspondence that makes sense for the wider range $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}\in (2,4]$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D705}^{\prime }\in [4,8)$.

MSC classification

Primary: 60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory 60J67: Stochastic (Schramm-)Loewner evolution (SLE) 81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. 82B43: Percolation
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Forum of Mathematics, Pi , Volume 5 , 2017 , e4
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