We give a direct construction of the conformally invariant measure on self-avoiding loops in Riemann surfaces (Werner measure) from chordal $\text{SLE}_{8/3}$. We give a new proof of uniqueness of the measure and use Schramm's formula to construct a measure on boundary bubbles encircling an interior point. After establishing covariance properties for this bubble measure, we apply these properties to obtain a measure on loops by integrating measures on boundary bubbles. We calculate the distribution of the conformal radius of boundary bubbles encircling an interior point and deduce from it explicit upper and lower bounds for the loop measure.
In the paper we prove that, for $κ\in(0,8)$, the $n$-point boundary Green's function of exponent $\frac8κ-1$ for chordal SLE$_κ$ exists. We also prove that the convergence is uniform over compact sets and the Green's function is continuous. We also give up-to-constant bounds for the Green's function.
Let $κ\in(4,8)$. Let $γ$ be an SLE$_κ$ curve in a Jordan domain $D$ connecting $a_1\ne a_2\in\partial D$. We attach $γ$ with two open boundary arcs $A_1,A_2$ of $D$, which share end points $b_1\ne b_2\in\partial D\setminus\{a_1,a_2\}$, and consider for each $z_0\in D$ the limit $$ \lim_{r \downarrow 0}r^{1-\frac 38κ} \mathbb{P}[γ\cup A_1\cup A_2 \mbox{ has a cut point in }\{|z-z_0|<r\}].$$ We prove that the limit converges, derive a rate of convergence, and obtain the exact formula of the limit up to a multiplicative constant depending only on $κ$.
Let $Q$ be a free Boltzmann quadrangulation with simple boundary decorated by a critical ($p=3/4$) face percolation configuration. We prove that the chordal percolation exploration path on $Q$ between two marked boundary edges converges in the scaling limit to chordal SLE$_6$ on an independent $\sqrt{8/3}$-Liouville quantum gravity disk (equivalently, a Brownian disk). The topology of convergence is the Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov-uniform topology, the natural analog of the Gromov-Hausdorff topology for curve-decorated metric measure spaces. We also obtain analogous scaling limit results for fa…
We continue the study of null-vector equations in relation with partition functions of (systems of) Schramm-Loewner Evolutions (SLEs) by considering the question of fusion. Starting from $n$ commuting SLEs seeded at distinct points, the partition function satisfies $n$ null-vector equations (at level 2). We show how to obtain higher level null-vector equations by coalescing the seeds one by one. As an example, we extend Schramm's formula (for the position of a marked bulk point relatively to a chordal SLE trace) to an arbitrary number of SLE strands. The argument combines input from representa…
From conformal field theory on the Riemann sphere, we implement its boundary version in a simply-connected domain using the Schottky double construction. We consider the statistical fields generated by background charge modification of the Gaussian free field with Dirichlet boundary condition under the OPE multiplications. We prove that the correlation functions of such fields with symmetric background charges form a collection of martingale-observables for (forward) chordal/radial SLE with force points and spins. We also present the connection between conformal field theory with Neumann bound…
We consider a transient chordal SLE$_κ(ρ_1,\dots,ρ_m)$ curve $η$ in $\mathbb{H}$ from $w$ to $\infty$ with force points $ v_1> \cdots >v_m$ in $(-\infty,w^-]$, which intersects and is not boundary-filling on $(-\infty,v_m)$. The main result is that there is an atomless locally finite Borel measure $μ_η$ on $η\cap (-\infty,v_m]$ such that for any $v<v_m$, the $d$-dimensional Minkowski content of $η\cap [v,v_m]$ exists and equals $μ_η[v,v_m]$, where $d=\frac{(\sum ρ_j+4)(κ-4-2\sum ρ_j)}{2κ}$ is the Hausdorff dimension of $η\cap [v,v_m]$. In the case that all $ρ_j=0$, this measure agrees with the…
We define intermediate SLE$_κ(\underlineρ)$ and reversed intermediate SLE$_κ(\underlineρ)$ processes using Appell-Lauricella multiple hypergeometric functions, and use them to describe the time-reversal of multiple-force-point chordal SLE$_κ(\underlineρ)$ curves in the case that all force points are on the boundary and lie on the same side of the initial point, and $κ$ and $\underlineρ=(ρ_1,\dots,ρ_m)$ satisfy that either $κ\in(0,4]$ and $\sum_{j=1}^k ρ_j>-2$ for all $1\le k\le m$, or $κ\in(4,8)$ and $\sum_{j=1}^k ρ_j\ge \fracκ{2}-2$ for all $1\le k\le m$.
