Continuous LERW started from interior points (Q981026)

A family of continuous loop-erased conditional random walks (LERW) in finitely connected domains and started from interior points is defined. The paper is organized as follows. The Introduction describes the problems and methods of proving employed here together with references. It is noticed that the whole-plane Loewner equation can be applied for definition of continuous LERW in domain \(D\) starting from the interior point \(a=0\) and aimed at another interior point, say \(z_e\). Other targets, such as a boundary arc or another boundary point are possible as well. In Section~2 some notation is presented. The radial Loewner equations, interior hulls and interior Loewner claims, whole-plane Loewner equations are discussed. In Section~3, the detailed definition of continuous LERW started from interior point is given. Continuous boundary LERW and continuous interior LERW are considered. Conformal invariance and local martingales are discussed. The main theorems of the paper are stated here. Section~4 contains the proofs of the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the integral to equations. The radial equations and the whole-plane equations are considered separately. In Section~5 it is proved that the continuous LERW started from the interior point is locally absolutely continuous with respect to to the whole-plane \(SLE_2\) process. In the last Section~6, a family of discrete LERW defined on the discrete approximation of the domain is introduced and the proof is sketched to show that the scaling limit of this discrete LERW is the continuous one defined in this paper. The other targets are discussed as well. The readers are suggested to have at a hand a copy of the paper: [\textit{D. Zhan}, Ann. Probab. 36, No. 2, 467--529 (2008; Zbl 1153.60057)].