Random conformal weldings

Abstract: We construct a conformally invariant random family of closed curves in the plane by welding of random homeomorphisms of the unit circle. The homeomorphism is constructed using the exponential of

where

X

is the restriction of the two dimensional free field on the circle and the parameter

is in the "high temperature" regime

. The welding problem is solved by studying a non-uniformly elliptic Beltrami equation with a random complex dilatation. For the existence a method of Lehto is used. This requires sharp probabilistic estimates to control conformal moduli of annuli and they are proven by decomposing the free field as a sum of independent fixed scale fields and controlling the correlations of the complex dilation restricted to dyadic cells of various scales. For uniqueness we invoke a result by Jones and Smirnov on conformal removability of H"older curves. We conjecture that our curves are locally related to SLE

(k a p p a)

for

k a p p a < 4

.

Review text

The authors give a construction of random plane curves based on the idea of conformal welding, defined as follows. Consider a Jordan curve \(\Gamma\) bounding a simply connected region \(\Omega\) in the plane. By Riemann's mapping theorem there are conformal maps \(f_{\pm}\) mapping the unit disk \(\mathbb D\) and its complement onto \(\Omega\) and its complement, respectively. Both maps have by Caratheodory's theorem ahomeomorphic extension to the closure. Thus the mapping \(f_+ ^{-1}\circ f_- : \mathbb T \to \mathbb T\), \(\mathbb T= \partial \mathbb D\), is well-defined. The conformal welding is the inverse operation where, given a suitable homeomorphism of the circle \( \mathbb T\), one constructs a Jordan curve of the plane.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper the authors consider a random scale invariant set of homeomorphisms \(h_{\omega}: \mathbb T \to \mathbb T\) and construct the welding curves. The model considered here has been proposed by the second author.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors study stochastically self-similar random curves. They choose a homeomorphism by starting with the Gaussian random field \(X\) on \( \mathbb T\) with covariance \({\mathbb E} X(z) X(z') = - \log |z-z'|\) where \( z,z' \in \mathbb T\). The exponential of \(\beta X\) gives rise to a random measure \(\tau \) on \( \mathbb T\) formally given by \(d \tau = e^{ \beta X(z)} \, dz\).NEWLINENEWLINEThis construction depends on a real parameter \(\beta\) which has a critical role. There exists a constant \(\beta_c\) such that for \(\beta < \beta_c\) the constructed maps are Hölder continuous for a.e. \(\omega\). It is expected that for \(\beta > \beta_c\) no welding exists.

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