A growing hull is parameterized by half-plane capacity when . The factor two makes its Chordal Loewner equation take the conventional form .
Loewner chain 2026-09-24
A chordal Loewner chain is an increasing family of compact H-hulls, usually parameterized by half-plane capacity, whose mapping-out functions evolve according to the Chordal Loewner equation.
The parameterization in part (c) gives the exact self-similarity
for every . The Loewner local growth property supplies a continuous Loewner driving function . Under this scaling of the hulls, the deterministic scaling rule for the Chordal Loewner equation gives
Taking and shows that
for the real constant .
Put and define
Then . Differentiating with the Chordal Loewner equation gives
Uniqueness for this ordinary differential equation shows that . At ,
which is the endpoint identity for the Reverse Loewner flow.
For , the pathwise identity is generally false. The left side is built from the reversed final driver segment , whereas the right side is built from the initial segment . By time reversal and symmetry of Brownian motion they have the same probability distribution, but they are not equal for the given Brownian path.