The dimension of the planar Brownian frontier is \(4/3\) (Q5945782): Difference between revisions

The authors formulate a number of deep results concerning Hausdorff dimension of various point sets associated with the planar Brownian motion \(B_t\). In particular, the frontier (the hull of the path with all the holes ``filled in'') has the dimension \(4/3\), the set of cut points (points \(B_s\) such that \(B[0,s)\cap P(s, t]= \emptyset\)) has the dimension \(3/4\), and the set of pioneer points (points \(B_s\) lying on the boundary of the unbounded component of the complement of \(B[0,s]\)) has the dimension \(7/4\). This result is a corollary of a general theorem determining the values of Brownian intersection exponents. The authors also survey relationship to stochastic Löwner evolution as a model for conformally invariant growth. Editorial remark: The paper has been reprinted in ibid. 8, No. 4, 401--411 (2001) because of a printing error, several lines of the article were accidentally omitted in the original.