Random curves by conformal welding

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Abstract: We construct a conformally invariant random family of closed curves in the plane by welding of random homeomorphisms of the unit circle given in terms of the exponential of Gaussian Free Field. We conjecture that our curves are locally related to SLE(kappa) for kappa<4.


Given a Jordan curve \(\Gamma\) in the extended plane \(\overline{\mathbb C}\), let \(f_+\) and \(f_-\) be Riemann mappings of the unit disk \(\mathbb D\) and its complement \(\mathbb D_{\infty}\) onto the components \(\Omega_+\) and \(\Omega_-\) of \(\overline{\mathbb C}\setminus\Gamma\). Both \(f_+\) and \(f_-\) are extended continuously to the unit circle \(\mathbb T\). Then \(\phi=f_+^{-1}\circ f_-\) is a homeomorphism of \(\mathbb T\). In this welding problem, the authors study the converse problem of finding \(\Gamma\), \(f_+\), \(f_-\) for a given \(\phi\). They solve the problem for a random, locally scale invariant set of homeomorphisms \(h_{\omega}\). For a Borel measure \(\tau\) without atoms, let a homeomorphism \(h: [0,1)\to[0,1)\) be given by \(h(t)=\tau([0,t))/\tau([0,1))\). A class of homeomorphisms \(h\) is obtained if \(\tau\) is formally proportional to \(e^{\beta X(t)}dt\), \(\beta\geq0\), and the random field \(X\) has the covariance \[ \mathbb EX(t)X(t')=-\log|e^{2\pi it}-e^{2\pi it'}|. \] Introduce a regularization \(X_{\epsilon}\), \(\epsilon>0\), which is almost surely continuous. Almost surely, the weak limit of the Borel measure \[ \tau(dz)=\lim_{\epsilon\to0}e^{\beta X_{\epsilon}(z)}/\mathbb E e^{\beta X_{\epsilon}(z)}\;dz \] exists and defines a non-atomic random Borel measure on \([0,1)\). The main result of the article is Theorem 1.1: For \(\beta^2<2\), almost surely in \(\omega\), the above formulas define a Hölder continuous circle homeomorphism such that the welding problem has a solution \(\Gamma\), where \(\Gamma\) is a Jordan curve bounding a domain \(\Omega=f_+(\mathbb D)\) with a Hölder continuous Riemann mapping \(f_+\). For a given \(\omega\), the solution is unique up to a Möbius map of the plane.











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