Loewner Chains

zbMATH Open1087.60069arXivcond-mat/0412372MaRDI QIDQ3372212FDOQ3372212

Publication date: 20 February 2006

Abstract: These lecture notes on 2D growth processes are divided in two parts. The first part is a non-technical introduction to stochastic Loewner evolutions (SLEs). Their relationship with 2D critical interfaces is illustrated using numerical simulations. Schramm's argument mapping conformally invariant interfaces to SLEs is explained. The second part is a more detailed introduction to the mathematically challenging problems of 2D growth processes such as Laplacian growth, diffusion limited aggregation (DLA), etc. Their description in terms of dynamical conformal maps, with discrete or continuous time evolution, is recalled. We end with a conjecture based on possible dendritic anomalies which, if true, would imply that the Hele-Shaw problem and DLA are in different universality classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412372

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory scaling limits growth processes stochastic Loewner evolutions critical interfaces dynamical conformal maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) General theory of conformal mappings (30C35)

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