Pre-freezing transition in Boltzmann-Gibbs measures associated with log-correlated fields

Abstract

We consider Boltzmann-Gibbs measures associated with log-correlated Gaussian fields as potentials and study their multifractal properties which exhibit phase transitions. In particular, the pre-freezing and freezing phenomena of the annealed exponent, predicted by Fyodorov using a modified replica-symmetry-breaking ansatz, are generalised to arbitrary dimension and verified using results from Gaussian multiplicative chaos theory.