The maximum of log-correlated Gaussian fields in random environment

Abstract

We study the distribution of the maximum of a large class of Gaussian fields indexed by a box $V_N\subset Z^d$ and possessing logarithmic correlations up to local defects that are sufficiently rare. Under appropriate assumptions that generalize those in Ding et al., we show that asymptotically, the centered maximum of the field has a randomly-shifted Gumbel distribution. We prove that the two dimensional Gaussian free field on a super-critical bond percolation cluster with $p$ close enough to 1, as well as the Gaussian free field in i.i.d. bounded conductances, fall under the assumptions of our general theorem.