Seminar - Uniform Spanning Tree, Bilaplacian Field and Quantum Triviality

Topic: 
Uniform Spanning Tree, Bilaplacian Field and Quantum Triviality
Date & Time: 
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 11:00 to 13:00
Speaker: 
Wei Wu, NYU Shanghai
Location: 
Room 264, Geography Building, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai

The seminar is sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai.
 

 

Abstract:

Quantum triviality refers to the phenomenon that an interacting lattice model converges to a free field in the scaling limit. This has been established for Ising and Phi^4 models, at or above their upper critical dimensions. We describe a simple spin model from uniform spanning forests in $\Z^d$ whose critical dimension is 4 and prove that the scaling limit is the bi-Laplacian Gaussian field for $d\ge 4$. At dimension 4, there is a logarithmic correction for the spin-spin correlation and the bi-Laplacian Gaussian field is a log correlated field. Based on joint works with Greg Lawler and Xin Sun.

Biography:

Wei Wu is currently a Global postdoctoral fellow at NYU Shanghai. His research interest includes probability theory and mathematical physics.

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