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Metric-measure limits of subcritical FK and spanning-tree planar maps
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Abstract
We resolve the finite spherical cases of Gwynne and Miller's graph-metric conjecture for critical Fortuin–Kasteleyn maps at each fixed $q\in(0,4)$ and for uniform spanning-tree-decorated maps. After deterministic rescaling of graph distances, these maps, equipped with the vertex probability measure proportional to degree, converge in Gromov–Hausdorff–Prokhorov law to their ordinary unit-area Liouville quantum gravity spheres. Distances use every primal edge, and convergence holds through all positive integer edge counts.
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Follow-up works
- Nina Holden, The Tutte embedding of tree-weighted planar maps converges to Liouville quantum gravity (arXiv:2610.10501, 7 Oct 2026). Independent work on Tutte-embedding convergence of spanning-tree-decorated maps that names this paper as one the OpenAI linear-clock paper builds on; its Future directions item 2 (Gromov–Hausdorff convergence of tree-weighted maps to LQG) is among the open problems the author says the OpenAI papers "solve several of".
- Nina Holden and Pu Yu, The circle packing and Riemann uniformization embedding of tree-weighted planar maps converge to Liouville quantum gravity (arXiv:2610.10505, 7 Oct 2026). Independent work on conformal embeddings of spanning-tree-weighted maps, which says "none of the OpenAI results imply the results of our paper, or vice versa." [family-level]
Formalization
- Release Lean scope note for family 211 (lean/docs/211.md). The family's Lean formalization covers only the q>4 continuum-random-tree paper, not this one. [family-level]
Related prior literature mentioned by others
- Ewain Gwynne and Jason Miller, Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for $\gamma\in(0,2)$ (arXiv:1905.00383v3, 22 July 2020). Its Conjecture 1.7 includes graph-metric scaling limits of FK and spanning-tree-weighted maps, whose finite spherical cases are the subject of this manuscript.
Elsewhere
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- Emergent Mind: family 211
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Cite
@misc{OAI:Metric-measure-limits-of-subcritical-FK-and-spanning-tree-planar-maps-September-24-2026,
author = {{OpenAI}},
title = {{Metric-measure limits of subcritical FK and spanning-tree planar maps}},
howpublished = {OpenAI Math Release preprint
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year = {2026}
}Lean formalization
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Family 211: The geometric phase diagram, diffusion, and spectra of random planar maps
Critical Fortuin–Kasteleyn planar maps converge to Liouville quantum gravity spheres for $0\lt q\le4$ 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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- Random Walks on Critical FK–Ising Maps and Liouville Brownian Motion · October 5, 2026
- Spectral convergence for critical FK–Ising planar maps · October 5, 2026
- A Linear Clock for Random Walk on Tree-Weighted Planar Maps · October 5, 2026
- Canonical conformal limits of subcritical FK planar maps · September 24, 2026
- The critical Liouville quantum sphere and geometric limits of FK maps at q=4 · September 24, 2026
- Brownian continuum random tree limits of finite Fortuin–Kasteleyn maps above four · September 24, 2026