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Free Boson Correlator $ \langle X(z)X(w) \rangle =- \ln |z - w| $
In physics papers, the massless free boson has a definition involving an action:
$$ S(X) = \frac{1}{8\pi} \int d\sigma^2\, \partial X \overline{\partial X}$$
The random functions $X(z)$ are ...