Active spanning trees with bending energy on planar maps and SLE-decorated Liouville quantum gravity for $\kappa >8$

Abstract

We introduce a two-parameter family of probability measures on spanning trees of a planar map. One of the parameters controls the activity of the spanning tree and the other is a measure of its bending energy. When the bending parameter is 1, we recover the active spanning tree model, which is closely related to the critical Fortuin--Kasteleyn model. A random planar map decorated by a spanning tree sampled from our model can be encoded by means of a generalized version of Sheffield's hamburger-cheeseburger bijection. Using this encoding, we prove that for a range of parameter values (including the ones corresponding to maps decorated by an active spanning tree), the infinite-volume limit of spanning-tree-decorated planar maps sampled from our model converges in the peanosphere sense, upon rescaling, to an SLE${}_{\kappa }$-decorated $\gamma$-Liouville quantum cone with $\kappa >8$ and $\gamma =4/\sqrt{\kappa }\in (0,\sqrt{2})$.

55 pages, 9 figures; revised

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