PDE and mathematical physics · Oct 6, 2026

The geometric phase diagram, diffusion, and spectra of random planar maps

Critical Fortuin–Kasteleyn planar maps converge to Liouville quantum gravity spheres for 0<q≤40\lt q\le4 and to the Brownian continuum random tree for q > 4, establishing the surface-to-tree geometric transition. For FK–Ising and spanning-tree-weighted maps, stationary random walks converge to Liouville Brownian motion on the limiting sphere. The FK–Ising spectral result also gives convergence of eigenvalues and heat traces, using the stated Brownian/LQG inputs.

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