We derive the alternating arm exponents of the critical Ising model. We obtain six different patterns of alternating boundary arm exponents which correspond to the boundary conditions (⊖⊕), (⊖ free) and (free free), and the alternating interior arm exponents.

We introduce the dynamical sine-Gordon equation in two space dimensions with parameter β, which is the natural dynamic associated to the usual quantum sine- Gordon model. It is shown that when β2 ∈ (0, 16π ) the Wick renormalised equation 3 is well-posed. In the regime β2 ∈ (0,4π), the Da Prato–Debussche method [J Funct Anal 196(1):180–210, 2002; Ann Probab 31(4):1900–1916, 2003] applies, while for β2 ∈ [4π, 16π ), the solution theory is provided via the theory of regularity structures 3 [Hairer, Invent Math 198(2):269–504, 2014]. We also show that this model arises naturally from a class of 2 + 1-dimensional equilibrium interface fluctuation models with periodic nonlinearities. The main mathematical difficulty arises in the construction of the model for the associated regularity structure where the role of the noise is played by a non-Gaussian random distribution similar to the complex multiplicative Gaussian chaos recently analysed in Lacoin et al.

We prove that uniform random quadrangulations of the sphere with$n$faces, endowed with the usual graph distance and renormalized by$n$^{−1/4}, converge as$n$→$∞$in distribution for the Gromov–Hausdorff topology to a limiting metric space. We validate a conjecture by Le Gall, by showing that the limit is (up to a scale constant) the so-called$Brownian map$, which was introduced by Marckert–Mokkadem and Le Gall as the most natural candidate for the scaling limit of many models of random plane maps. The proof relies strongly on the concept of$geodesic stars$in the map, which are configurations made of several geodesics that only share a common endpoint and do not meet elsewhere.

In an infinite sequence of independent identically distributed continuous random variables we study the number of strings of two subsequent records interrupted by a given number of non-records. By embedding in a marked Poisson process we prove that these counts are independent and Poisson distributed. Also the distribution of the number of uninterrupted strings of records is considered.

In the first part of this article, we proved a local version of the circular law up to the finest scale $N^{-1/2+ \e}$ for non-Hermitian random matrices at any point $z \in \C$ with ||z|−1|>c for any c>0 independent of the size of the matrix. Under the main assumption that the first three moments of the matrix elements match those of a standard Gaussian random variable after proper rescaling, we extend this result to include the edge case $|z|-1=\oo(1)$. Without the vanishing third moment assumption, we prove that the circular law is valid near the spectral edge $|z|-1=\oo(1)$ up to scale $N^{-1/4+ \e}$.