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Refined regularity of SLE

Probability 2025-02-17 v3 Complex Variables

Abstract

We prove refined (variation and H\"older-type) regularity statements for the SLE trace (under capacity parametrisation). More precisely, we show that the trace has finite ψ\psi-variation for ψ(x)=xd(log1/x)dε\psi(x) = x^d(\log 1/x)^{-d-\varepsilon} and H\"older-type modulus φ(t)=tα(log1/t)β\varphi(t) = t^\alpha(\log 1/t)^{\beta} where dd and α\alpha are the optimal pp-variation and H\"older exponents of SLEκ_\kappa which have been previously identified by Viklund, Lawler (2011) and Friz, Tran (2017). For SLE8_8, we simplify a step in the proof by Kavvadias, Miller, and Schoug (2021), and get the modulus φ(t)=(log1/t)1/4(loglog1/t)2+ε\varphi(t) = (\log 1/t)^{-1/4}(\log\log 1/t)^{2+\varepsilon}. Finally, for κ8\kappa \ge 8, we prove regularity estimates for the uniformising maps that hold uniformly in time, namely suptf^t(u+iv)v2α1(log1/v)β\sup_t |\hat f_t'(u+iv)| \lesssim v^{2\alpha-1}(\log 1/v)^\beta in case κ>8\kappa>8 and v1(log1/v)1/4(loglog1/v)1+εv^{-1}(\log 1/v)^{-1/4}(\log\log 1/v)^{1+\varepsilon} in case κ=8\kappa=8. Our results are obtained from analysing the forward Loewner differential equation (in contrast to the other mentioned works which analyse the backward equation).

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@article{arxiv.2109.12992,
  title  = {Refined regularity of SLE},
  author = {Yizheng Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12992},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

results have been improved in v2, notations have been made slightly more consistent

R2 v1 2026-06-24T06:22:34.099Z