Liouville Conformal Field Theory on even-dimensional spheres (1912.09219v2)

Abstract: Initiated by Polyakov in his 1981 seminal work, the study of two-dimensional Liouville Conformal Field Theory has drawn considerable attention over the past decades. Recent progress in the understanding of conformal geometry in dimension higher than two have naturally led to a generalization of Polyakov formalism to higher dimensions, based on conformally invariant operators: Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling operators and the $\mathcal{Q}$-curvature. This document is dedicated to providing a rigorous construction of Liouville Conformal Field Theory on even-dimensional spheres. This is done at the classical level in terms of a generalized \textit{Uniformization} problem, and at the quantum level thanks to a probabilistic construction based on log-correlated fields and Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos. The properties of the objects thus defined are in agreement with the ones expected in the physics literature.