This is the second part of a work aimed at constructing the stress-energy tensor of conformal field theory (CFT) as a local “object” in conformal loop ensembles (CLE). This work lies in the wider context of re-constructing quantum field theory from mathematically well-defined ensembles of random objects. In the present paper, based on results of the first part, we identify the stressenergy tens...

We complete the determination of how far convex maps can deform discs in each of the three classical geometries. The euclidean case was settled by Nehari in 1976, and the spherical case by Mej́ıa and Pommerenke in 2000. We find the sharp bound on the Schwarzian derivative of a hyperbolically convex function and thus complete the hyperbolic case. This problem was first posed by Ma and Minda in a ...

A local normal form is obtained for geodesics in the space Λ = {Γ} of analytic Jordan curves in the extended complex plane with symmetric space multiplication Γ1 · Γ2 defined by Schwarzian reflection of Γ2 in Γ1. Local geometric features of (Λ, ·) will be seen to reflect primarily the structure of the Witt algebra, while issues of global behavior of the exponential map will be viewed in the con...

Let (M, g) be a pseudo-Riemannian manifold and Fλ(M) the space of densities of degree λ on M . We study the space D2 λ,μ(M) of second-order differential operators from Fλ(M) to Fμ(M). If (M, g) is conformally flat with signature p− q, then D2 λ,μ(M) is viewed as a module over the group of conformal transformations of M . We prove that, for almost all values of μ− λ, the O(p+1, q+1)-modules D2 λ...