Uniform Infinite Quadrangulation Research Articles

Convergence of the self-avoiding walk on random quadrangulations to SLE$_{8/3}$ on $\sqrt{8/3}$-Liouville quantum gravity

We prove that a uniform infinite quadrangulation of the half-plane decorated by a self-avoiding walk (SAW) converges in the scaling limit to the metric gluing of two independent Brownian half-planes identified along their positive boundary rays. Combined with other work of the authors, this implies the convergence of the SAW on a random quadrangulation to SLE$_{8/3}$ on a certain $\sqrt{8/3}$-Liouville quantum gravity surface. The topology of convergence is the local Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov-uniform topology, the natural generalization of the local Gromov-Hausdorff topology to curve-decorated metric measure spaces. We also prove analogous scaling limit results for uniform infinite quadrangulations of the whole plane decorated by either a one-sided or two-sided SAW. Our proof uses only the peeling procedure for random quadrangulations and some basic properties of the Brownian half-plane, so can be read without any knowledge of SLE or LQG.

The UIPQ seen from a point at infinity along its geodesic ray

We consider the uniform infinite quadrangulation of the plane (UIPQ). Curien, Menard and Miermont recently established that in the UIPQ, all infinite geodesic rays originating from the root are essentially similar, in the sense that they have an infinite number of common vertices. In this work, we identify the limit quadrangulation obtained by rerooting the UIPQ at a point at infinity on one of these geodesics. More precisely, calling $v_k$ the $k$-th vertex on the “leftmost” geodesic ray originating from the root, and $Q_{\infty }^{(k)}$ the UIPQ re-rooted at $v_k$, we study the local limit of $Q_{\infty }^{(k)}$. To do this, we split the UIPQ along the geodesic ray $(v_k)_{k\geq 0}$. Using natural extensions of the Schaeffer correspondence with discrete trees, we study the quadrangulations obtained on each “side” of this geodesic ray. We finally show that the local limit of $Q_{\infty }^{(k)}$ is the quadrangulation obtained by gluing the limit quadrangulations back together.

The two uniform infinite quadrangulations of the plane have the same law

We prove that the uniform infinite random quadrangulations defined respectively by Chassaing-Durhuus and Krikun have the same distribution.

Scaling limits for the uniform infinite quadrangulation

The uniform infinite planar quadrangulation is an infinite random graph embedded in the plane, which is the local limit of uniformly distributed finite quadrangulations with a fixed number of faces. We study asymptotic properties of this random graph. In particular, we investigate scaling limits of the profile of distances from the distinguished point called the root, and we get asymptotics for the volume of large balls. As a key technical tool, we first describe the scaling limit of the contour functions of the uniform infinite well-labeled tree, in terms of a pair of eternal conditioned Brownian snakes. Scaling limits for the uniform infinite quadrangulation can then be derived thanks to an extended version of Schaeffer's bijection between well-labeled trees and rooted quadrangulations.