Speaker: 

Wei Wu

Institution: 

CIMS

Time: 

Monday, October 24, 2016 - 11:00am to 11:50am

Host: 

Location: 

NS2 1201

Critical lattice models are believed to converge to a free field in the scaling limit, at or above their critical dimension.  This has been (partially) established for Ising and Phi^4 models for d \geq 4. We describe a simple spin model from uniform spanning forests in $\Z^d$ whose critical dimension is 4 and prove that the scaling limit is the bi-Laplacian Gaussian field for $d\ge 4$. At dimension 4, there is a logarithmic correction for the spin-spin correlation and the bi-Laplacian Gaussian field is a log correlated field. The proof also improves the known mean field picture of LERW in d=4, by showing that the renormalized escape probability (and arm events) of 4D LERW converge to some "continuum escaping probability". Based on joint works with Greg Lawler and Xin Sun.