The real layering field of Brownian loop soup and the Gaussian multiplicative chaos

Abstract: We consider the random field defined by the layering numbers of the Brownian loop soup in a bounded simply connected domain in the complex plane. We call this the layering field and show that, after a suitable renormalization, it converges to the subcritical Gaussian multiplicative chaos. The main technique for our proof is the Wiener-It^{o} chaos expansion. We also calculate the $n$-point functions of the layering field, show their conformal covariance and discuss their behavior near the boundary of the domain.