A natural parametrization for the Schramm-Loewner evolution

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Abstract: The Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE_kappa) is a candidate for the scaling limit of random curves arising in two-dimensional critical phenomena. When kappa < 8, an instance of SLE_kappa is a random planar curve with almost sure Hausdorff dimension d = 1 + kappa/8 < 2. This curve is conventionally parametrized by its half plane capacity, rather than by any measure of its d-dimensional volume. For kappa < 8, we use a Doob-Meyer decomposition to construct the unique (under mild assumptions) Markovian parametrization of SLE_kappa that transforms like a d-dimensional volume measure under conformal maps. We prove that this parametrization is non-trivial (i.e., the curve is not entirely traversed in zero time) for kappa < 4(7 - sqrt{33}) = 5.021 ....


The Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) is a model which has been proposed to picture the conformal invariance in the scaling limit of some measures on paths, or clusters on planar lattices, which occur in statistical mechanics. The main purpose of the paper is to propose a Markovian parametrization for this SLE, and to this end the authors derive a Doob-Meyer decomposition for submartingales satisfying a second moment bound. This unique parametrization is referred to as natural to emphasize the analogy with the natural parametrization of smooth curves and the main results are stated in terms of martingales and asymptotic limits.




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