Continuity in \(\kappa\) in \(\mathrm{SLE}_\kappa\) theory using a constructive method and rough path theory (Q2041803)

The authors study the Schramm-Loewner evolution \(SLE_\kappa\), that is a one-parameter family of random planar growth processes constructed as a solution to Loewner equation when the driving term is a Brownian motion with diffusivity \(\kappa>0\). Several questions regarding the continuity in \(\kappa\) of the \(SLE_\kappa\) traces and maps appear very naturally. In order to study the first question, the authors consider a natural coupling of SLE traces: for different values of \(\kappa\) they use the same Brownian motion. It is rather easy to show that SLE is continuous in the Carathéodory sense, but showing that SLE traces are continuous in the uniform sense is much harder. The authors show that for a given sequence \(\kappa_j \rightarrow \kappa\in (0, 8/3)\), for almost every Brownian motion \(SLE_\kappa\) traces converge locally uniformly. The approach is based on a new dynamical view on the approximation of SLE curves by curves driven by a piecewise square root approximation of the Brownian motion. The second question is answered in the framework of rough path theory. Using this theory, it is proved that the solutions of the backward Loewner differential equation driven by \(\sqrt{\kappa}B_t\) when started away from the origin, are continuous in the \(p\)-variation topology in the parameter \(\kappa\), for all \(\kappa\in R_+\).