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arXiv · 2609.12820

Moments Comparison Inequalities for Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow, Polymers and GMC

Abstract

We employ a Gaussian convex inequality developed in [AC15], [Che26], [Gue22], and [FUMPC26] to establish (one sided) moment comparison inequalities for Gaussian multiplicative chaos, directed polymers in Gaussian environment and, in particular, the Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow (SHF), including upper bounds on negative moments, as well as similar lower bounds for $p$-th moments with $p\in (0,1)$. For the Critical 2d SHF, averaged over small balls, we also obtain the matching (up to multiplicative constants) complementary bounds. We establish the complementary bounds using a bootstrap argument inspired by [DS10] and a geometric decomposition introduced in [GT26]. Specifically, we prove that for locally averaged SHF, for every $p\in\mathbb R$, the $p$-th moment is, up to multiplicative constants, bounded in both sides by the $\frac{p(p-1)}{2}$-th power of its second moment.

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Ziyang Liu, Zuodi Xie. 2026-09-11. Moments Comparison Inequalities for Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow, Polymers and GMC. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12820

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