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We consider uniform spanning tree (UST) in topological polygons with $2N$ marked points on the boundary with alternating boundary conditions. In [LPW21], the authors derive the scaling limit of the Peano curve in the UST. They are variants of SLE$_8$. In this article, we derive the scaling limit of the loop-erased random walk branch (LERW) in the UST. They are variants of SLE$_2$. The conclusion is a generalization of [HLW20,Theorem 1.6] where the authors derive the scaling limit of the LERW branch of UST when $N=2$. When $N=2$, the limiting law is SLE$_2(-1,-1; -1, -1)$. However, the limiting law is nolonger in the family of SLE$_2(rho)$ process as long as $Nge 3$.
The determination of the Hausdorff dimension of the scaling limit of loop-erased random walk is closely related to the study of the one-point function of loop-erased random walk, i.e., the probability a loop-erased random walk passes through a given vertex. Recent work in the theoretical physics literature has investigated the Hausdorff dimension of loop-erased random walk in three dimensions by applying field theory techniques to study spin systems that heuristically encode the one-point function of loop-erased random walk. Inspired by this, we introduce two different spin systems whose correlation functions can be rigorously shown to encode the one-point function of loop-erased random walk.
We give a direct probabilistic construction for correlation functions in a logarithmic conformal field theory (log-CFT) of central charge $-2$. Specifically, we show that scaling limits of Peano curves in the uniform spanning tree in topological polygons with general boundary conditions are given by certain variants of the SLE$_kappa$ with $kappa=8$. We also prove that the associated crossing probabilities have conformally invariant scaling limits, given by ratios of explicit SLE$_8$ partition functions. These partition functions are interpreted as correlation functions in a log-CFT. Remarkably, it is clear from our results that this theory is not a minimal model and exhibits logarithmic phenomena --- indeed, the limit functions have logarithmic asymptotic behavior, that we calculate explicitly. General fusion rules for them could be inferred from the explicit formulas.
We discuss properties of dipolar SLE(k) under conditioning. We show that k=2, which describes continuum limits of loop erased random walks, is characterized as being the only value of k such that dipolar SLE conditioned to stop on an interval coincides with dipolar SLE on that interval. We illustrate this property by computing a new bulk passage probability for SLE(2).
We consider self-avoiding walk on a tree with random conductances. It is proven that in the weak disorder regime, the quenched critical point is equal to the annealed one, and that in the strong disorder regime, these critical points are strictly different. Derrida and Spohn, and Baffet, Patrick and Pul$acute{rm e}$ give the exact value of the quenched critical point. We give another heuristic approach by the fractional moment estimate.
In this paper we consider the natural random walk on a planar graph and scale it by a small positive number $delta$. Given a simply connected domain $D$ and its two boundary points $a$ and $b$, we start the scaled walk at a vertex of the graph nearby $a$ and condition it on its exiting $D$ through a vertex nearby $b$, and prove that the loop erasure of the conditioned walk converges, as $delta downarrow 0$, to the chordal SLE$_{2}$ that connects $a$ and $b$ in $D$, provided that an invariance principle is valid for both the random walk and the dual walk of it.