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Reversibility of whole-plane SLE for $\kappa > 8$

Probability 2024-10-04 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Whole-plane SLEκ_\kappa is a random fractal curve between two points on the Riemann sphere. Zhan established for κ4\kappa \leq 4 that whole-plane SLEκ_\kappa is reversible, meaning invariant in law under conformal automorphisms swapping its endpoints. Miller and Sheffield extended this to κ8\kappa \leq 8. We prove whole-plane SLEκ_\kappa is reversible for κ>8\kappa > 8, resolving the final case and answering a conjecture of Viklund and Wang. Our argument depends on a novel mating-of-trees theorem of independent interest, where Liouville quantum gravity on the disk is decorated by an independent radial space-filling SLE curve.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05176,
  title  = {Reversibility of whole-plane SLE for $\kappa > 8$},
  author = {Morris Ang and Pu Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05176},
  year   = {2024}
}

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28 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in PTRF