Gaussian free field with logarithmic singularities and reduced Green's energy
Abstract
We analyze the level lines of the Gaussian Free Field with logarithmic singularities in polygonal domains. We focus on the (none-zero) singular case and compare it to the singular-free setting. The law of the level lines for the field in singular case is absolutely continuous with respect to the law for the singular-free case, with a Radon-Nikodym derivative related to the reduced Green's energy which is introduced by F. Viklund and D. W. Nyström~[VN24]. These level lines admit a Brownian motion representation. In the singular-free case, such representation involves Poisson point processes of Brownian loops and excursions; while for the singular case, it additionally includes Poisson point processes of Brownian bubbles and bridges. The special cases of one or two singularities yield moment-generating functions of the conformal radius, which can be interpreted as one-point and two-point correlation functions of vertex operators in conformal field theory at the free-boson point. While the Radon-Nikodym derivative is bounded away from the singularities, the behavior of the level lines near the singularities is markedly different from the singular-free case, with different asymptotic probabilities for all level lines to remain close to the singularity.
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BibTeX
@misc{liu2026gaussian,
title = {{Gaussian free field with logarithmic singularities and reduced Green's energy}},
author = {Mingchang Liu and Titus Lupu and Hao Wu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.07272},
eprint = {2610.07272},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07272},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Gaussian free field with logarithmic singularities and reduced Green's energy
AU - Mingchang Liu
AU - Titus Lupu
AU - Hao Wu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.07272
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07272
AB - We analyze the level lines of the Gaussian Free Field with logarithmic singularities in polygonal domains. We focus on the (none-zero) singular case and compare it to the singular-free setting. The law of the level lines for the field in singular case is absolutely continuous with respect to the law for the singular-free case, with a Radon-Nikodym derivative related to the reduced Green's energy which is introduced by F. Viklund and D. W. Nyström~[VN24]. These level lines admit a Brownian motion representation. In the singular-free case, such representation involves Poisson point processes of Brownian loops and excursions; while for the singular case, it additionally includes Poisson point processes of Brownian bubbles and bridges. The special cases of one or two singularities yield moment-generating functions of the conformal radius, which can be interpreted as one-point and two-point correlation functions of vertex operators in conformal field theory at the free-boson point. While the Radon-Nikodym derivative is bounded away from the singularities, the behavior of the level lines near the singularities is markedly different from the singular-free case, with different asymptotic probabilities for all level lines to remain close to the singularity.
ER -