Energy characteristics of subordination chains (Q942019)

Many physical processes may be interpreted as expanding dynamical systems of domains in the complex plane \(\mathbb C\) or in the Riemann sphere \(\widehat{\mathbb C}\). This leads to the study of time-parameter Löwner subordination chains. In particular, the author is interested in Löwner chains of simply connected univalent domains with smooth \((C^\infty)\) boundaries. There exists a canonical identification of the space of such domains (under certain conformal normalization) with the infinite dimensional Kähler manifold whose central extension is the Virasoro-Bott group. A Löwner subordination chain \(\Omega(t)\) is described by the time-dependent family of conformal maps \(z=f(\zeta,t)\) of the unit disk \(\mathbb U\) onto \(\Omega(t)\), normalized by \(f(\zeta,t)=a_1(t)\zeta+a_2(t)\zeta^2 + \dots\), \(a_1(t)>0\). The aim of the paper is to give Hamiltonian and Lagrangian descriptions of the subordination evolution. In particular, the author discusses the relations between the Löwner-Kufarev equations in partial and ordinary derivatives, constructs the action functional, and obtains its time variation. This variation represents the infinitesimal version of the action of the Virasoro-Bott group over the space of analytic univalent functions.