Geometric description of some Loewner chains with infinitely many slits (Q6572137)

In this paper, the authors study the Loewner equation associated with domains having infinitely many slits. This is done through the associated \textit{chordal} Loewner equation that models the evolution on subsets of the upper half-plane \(\mathbb{H}\). The setup requires a sequence of curves \(\Gamma_n(t)\) in the upper half-plane parametrized by \(t\in[0,1]\), such that each curve can be separated from the closure of the union of all other curves at each time \(t\) by open sets. The flow is then described by the equation \N\[ \frac{\partial g}{\partial t}=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{b_n(t)}{g(z,t)-\lambda_n(t)} \; , \;\, g_0(t)(z)=z\, , \]\Nfor \(z\in\mathbb{H}\backslash \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}\Gamma_n(t)\), \(\sum b_n(t)=\partial_t\operatorname{hcap} \left(\bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}\Gamma_n(t)\right)\) and \textit{driving functions} \(\lambda_n(t)=g_t^{-1}(\Gamma_n(t))\). Here \(\operatorname{hcap}(B)\) stands for the half-plane capacity of \(B\subset\mathbb{H}\).\N\NThe authors provide a farily explicit solution of this equation for the case when \(\lambda_n(t)=k_n\sqrt{1-t}\), the \(\{k_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\) a collection of points on the real line, and functions \(b_n(t)\) that are constant. Single slit solutions have been addressed in [\textit{W. Kager} et al., J. Stat. Phys. 115, No. 3--4, 805--822 (2004; Zbl 1056.30005)], [\textit{J. Lind} et al., Duke Math. J. 154, No. 3, 527--573 (2010; Zbl 1206.30024)], showing that the geometry of the slit depends on the value \(k\) in the expression \(\lambda(t)=k\sqrt{1-t}\). In [\textit{E. Theodosiadis}, ``Explicit multi-slit Loewner flows and their geometry'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:2210.11396}], this has been generalized to finitely many slits. In short, the slits either spiral about some point in \(\mathbb{H}\), or intersect the real line non-tangentially each with a different angle, or do so tangentially with the same anlge 0 or \(\pi\), or intersect the real line all orthogonally.\N\NThe main result is Theorem 3.1 but is perhaps too long to be included here. It generalizes the above by describing similar geometric configurations for the slits that depend on the algebraic nature of the roots of the equation \N\[ z+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{4b_n}{z-k_n}=0 . \]\N\NThe slits that appear include logarithmic spirals, infinitely many slits emanating from one point, and infinitely many slits paralell to each other.