Liouville Field Theory of Fluctuating Loops

Abstract

Effective field theories of two-dimensional lattice models of fluctuating loops are constructed by mapping them onto random surfaces whose large scale fluctuations are described by a Liouville field theory. This provides a geometrical view of conformal invariance in two-dimensional critical phenomena and a method for calculating critical properties of loop models exactly. As an application of the method, the conformal charge and critical exponents for two mutually excluding Hamiltonian walks on the square lattice are calculated.

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