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We introduce a two-parameter family of probability measures on spanning trees of a planar map. One of the parameters controls the activity of the spanning tree and the other is a measure of its bending energy. When the bending parameter is 1, we recover the active spanning tree model, which is closely related to the critical Fortuin–Kasteleyn model. A random planar map decorated by a spanning tree sampled from our model can be encoded by means of a generalized version of Sheffield’s hamburger-cheeseburger bijection. Using this encoding, we prove that for a range of parameter values (including the ones corresponding to maps decorated by an active spanning tree), the infinite-volume limit of spanning-tree-decorated planar maps sampled from our model converges in the peanosphere sense, upon rescaling, to an \({{\rm SLE}_\kappa}\)-decorated γ-Liouville quantum cone with \({\kappa > 8}\) and \({\gamma = 4/ \sqrt\kappa \in (0,\sqrt 2)}\).
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Gwynne, E., Kassel, A., Miller, J. et al. Active Spanning Trees with Bending Energy on Planar Maps and SLE-Decorated Liouville Quantum Gravity for \({\kappa > 8}\). Commun. Math. Phys. 358, 1065–1115 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-018-3104-1
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