Abstract:  We introduce a family of random connected closed subsets of planar Brownian motion, called Brownian loop-catchers, which interpolate between the continuum loop-erased random-walk (LERW) and the Brownian trace. This provides the canonical continuation of Brownian loop soup clusters to central charges $-2\le c<0$. for="" each="" such=""><0$. therefore="">

Our construction begins with a random-walk loop-catcher on any finite graph such that recursively inserting loops from an independent random-walk loop soup to it recovers the original random walk. The key ingredient is a new entangled multipath LERW, which recovers a union of independent random-walk paths when decorated with a single common random-walk loop soup. We then prove that the random-walk loop-catcher converges to the Brownian loop-catcher under lattice approximations. To this end, we propose a novel Green function test which converts the recovery property of the Brownian loop-catcher into all mixed moments of Green functions in the remaining domain, based on the entangled multipath LERW. Consequently, the recovery property characterizes the full law of the Brownian loop-catcher, not only its filling. The Green function test also extends to the three-dimensional case.

Bio: 蔡格非，北京大学北京国际数学研究中心在读博士生，2022年本科毕业于北京大学数学科学学院。研究方向为概率论与数学物理，导师为李欣意、孙鑫。