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The geometry of Brownian surfaces

Remi Leandre, Institut de Mathematiques, Universite de Bourgogne


Abstract
Motivated by Segal's axiom of conformal field theory, we do a survey on geometrical random fields. We do a history in order to arrive at a field theoretical analog of Klauder's quantization in Hamiltonoan quantum mechanic by using infinite dimensional Airault-Malliavin Brownian motion.

AMS 2000 subject classifications: Primary 60G60; secondary 81T40.

Keywords: Segal’s axiom, Airault-Malliavin equation.

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Leandre, Remi, The geometry of Brownian surfaces, Probability Surveys, 3, (2006), 37-88 (electronic).

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