Chordal Komatu-Loewner equation and Brownian motion with darning in multiply connected domains
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- by Zhen-Qing Chen, Masatoshi Fukushima and Steffen Rohde PDF
- Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (2016), 4065-4114
Abstract:
Let $D={\mathbb H} \setminus \bigcup _{k=1}^N C_k$ be a standard slit domain where $\mathbb H$ is the upper half-plane and $C_k$, $1\leq k\leq N$, are mutually disjoint horizontal line segments in $\mathbb {H}$. Given a Jordan arc $\gamma \subset D$ starting at $\partial {\mathbb H},$ let $g_t$ be the unique conformal map from $D\setminus \gamma [0,t]$ onto a standard slit domain $D_t$ satisfying the hydrodynamic normalization. We prove that $g_t$ satisfies an ODE with the kernel on its right-hand side being the complex Poisson kernel of the Brownian motion with darning (BMD) for $D_t$, generalizing the chordal Loewner equation for the simply connected domain $D={\mathbb H}.$ Such a generalization has been obtained by Y. Komatu in the case of circularly slit annuli and by R. O. Bauer and R. M. Friedrich in the present chordal case, but only in the sense of the left derivative in $t$. We establish the differentiability of $g_t$ in $t$ to make the equation a genuine ODE. To this end, we first derive the continuity of $g_t(z)$ in $t$ with a certain uniformity in $z$ from a probabilistic expression of $\Im g_t(z)$ in terms of the BMD for $D$, which is then combined with a Lipschitz continuity of the complex Poisson kernel under the perturbation of standard slit domains to get the desired differentiability.References
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Additional Information
- Zhen-Qing Chen
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
- MR Author ID: 242576
- ORCID: 0000-0001-7037-4030
- Email: zqchen@uw.edu
- Masatoshi Fukushima
- Affiliation: Branch of Mathematical Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
- Email: fuku2@mx5.canvas.ne.jp
- Steffen Rohde
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
- Email: rohde@math.washington.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 3, 2013
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 7, 2014
- Published electronically: October 2, 2015
- Additional Notes: The first author’s research was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1206276 and NNSFC Grant 11128101
The second author’s research was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of MEXT No. 22540125
The third author’s research was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1068105 - © Copyright 2015 Zhen-Qing Chen, Masatoshi Fukushima and Steffen Rohde
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (2016), 4065-4114
- MSC (2010): Primary 60H30; Secondary 30C20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/6441
- MathSciNet review: 3453365