Conformally invariant scaling limits: an overview and a collection of problems
Conformally invariant scaling limits: an overview and a collection of problems
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共形不变的缩放限制:概述和问题集合
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-9675-6_34
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发表时间:
2006
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O. Schramm
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作者:
O. Schramm
Many mathematical models of statistical physics in two dimensions are either known
or conjectured to exhibit conformal invariance. Over the years, physicists proposed predictions
of various exponents describing the behavior of these models. Only recently have some of
these predictions become accessible to mathematical proof. One of the new developments is the
discovery of a one-parameter family of random curves called stochastic Loewner evolution or
SLE. The SLE curves appear as limits of interfaces or paths occurring in a variety of statistical
physics models as the mesh of the grid on which the model is defined tends to zero.
The main purpose of this article is to list a collection of open problems. Some of the
open problems indicate aspects of the physics knowledge that have not yet been understood
mathematically. Other problems are questions about the nature of the SLE curves themselves.
Before we present the open problems, the definition of SLE will be motivated and explained,
and a brief sketch of recent results will be presented.