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The probabilities that a random chordal filling avoids each admissible compact H-hull away from zero determine its law as an unparameterized closed set. Each point of its complement can be joined to the relevant real boundary arc through the complement and lies in a thin rational polygonal tube attached to that arc. These countably many hull tests recover the complement. Their joint avoidance events are tested by filled finite unions; if a union separates zero from infinity, the joint avoidance event is empty. Otherwise connectedness makes avoidance of the union equivalent to avoidance of its filled hull. Thus individual hull probabilities give every finite joint indicator distribution and determine the random complement.

For random proper simple curves from $0$ to infinity in the complex upper half-plane, the probabilities of avoiding every compact H-hull whose closure excludes zero determine the unparameterized trace law. Every point off a simple chordal curve can be connected to a real boundary interval away from zero within one side of its complement. A countable collection of thin rational polygonal tubes attached to that interval therefore recovers the complement from its avoidance indicators. Joint avoidance of finitely many tubes reduces to avoidance of their filled union. If the union blocks every path from zero to infinity the joint event is empty; otherwise filling pockets does not change the avoidance event. The inclusion-exclusion principle gives all finite indicator distributions. These determine the random complement and hence the trace. Simplicity and properness are hypotheses; the assertion is not a general determination theorem for arbitrary random closed sets.

For a compact H-hull $A$ whose closure avoids a real boundary point $x$, the Brownian excursion in the upper half-plane from $x$ to infinity avoids $A$ with the displayed probability. From an interior point $z$, the corresponding Doob h-transform avoidance probability is $\mathrm{Im}{g}_A(z)/\mathrm{Im}z$. Letting $z=x+i\epsilon$ approach the boundary and using the Schwarz reflection principle gives the derivative. In particular $0<g_A^{\prime }(x)\le 1$ at every regular real boundary point away from the hull.

Suppose a random proper simple curve from zero to infinity has the displayed avoidance probability for every admissible compact H-hull $A$, with fixed $\alpha >0$. Put ${\psi }_A=g_A-g_A(0)$. For another admissible hull $B$ in the image complex upper half-plane, map composition and the chain rule give $g_C^{\prime }(0)=g_B^{\prime }(0)g_A^{\prime }(0)$ for $C=A\cup {\psi }_A^{-1}(B)$. The conditional image curve therefore has avoidance probabilities $g_B^{\prime }(0{)}^{\alpha }$, exactly those of the original. Since avoidance probabilities determine a simple chordal curve law, the conditional image law agrees with the original. This is the chordal restriction property.

If a compact H-hull lies in a disc of radius $r$ centred at $\xi \in \mathbb{R}$, the displayed estimate holds for $|z-\xi |>2r$, with an absolute constant $C$. It refines the Laurent expansion uniformly in the hull and supplies the first-order increment needed to derive the Chordal Loewner equation from the Loewner local growth property.

The half-plane capacity of a compact H-hull is the nonnegative coefficient $a$ in

For $x\in \mathbb{R}$ and $R>0$, the filled half-disc $K=\{z\in \mathbb{H}:|z-x|\le R\}$ is a compact H-hull. Its mapping-out function of a compact H-hull is $g_K(z)=z+R^2/(z-x)$. On the semicircle the image is real, and the inverse branch asymptotic to the identity maps the complex upper half-plane onto the exterior half-disc. Its Laurent series has coefficient $R^2/z$, so $\boxed{\mathrm{hcap}(K)=R^2}$. Using an open half-disc instead requires taking its relative closure first.

This capacity measures the asymptotic probability that planar Brownian motion hits a compact H-hull before the real axis. It scales linearly with length and is distinct from half-plane capacity. A vertical slit of height $h$ has capacity $2h$; a half-disc of radius $r$ has capacity $4r$. Monotonicity of Brownian hitting probabilities gives $\mathrm{cap}(K)\le 4\mathrm{rad}(K)$, where the radius is that of the least real-centred enclosing half-disc. For finite slit hulls the capacity is the length of the image of the two-sided absorbing boundary under the mapping-out function.

For a compact H-hull and a Borel subset of the intrinsic boundary of a simply connected domain, hydrodynamic normalization at infinity and the Poisson kernel for the upper half-plane give this limit as $y\to \infty$ with $x/y\to 0$. After multiplying the kernel by $\pi y$, it tends pointwise to one and is eventually uniformly bounded. Dominated convergence proves the finite-measure case and Fatou's lemma proves the infinite-measure case.

For a compact H-hull, $v(z)=\mathrm{Im}{g}_K(z)$ is harmonic and satisfies $0<v(z)\le \mathrm{Im}z$. Local boundedness and the interior continuity of $g_K^{-1}$ show that $v$ tends to zero at every finite boundary point. The maximum principle for harmonic functions applied to $v-\mathrm{Im}z$, with an exhaustion controlling infinity through the Laurent expansion, proves the inequality without boundary smoothness.

An increasing family of compact H-hulls of half-plane capacity $2t$ with the Loewner local growth property corresponds uniquely to a continuous real Loewner driving function. Its mapping-out functions solve the Chordal Loewner equation up to the maximal lifetime of each point. Conversely each continuous driver generates that hull family. A continuous Loewner trace is an additional property, not a consequence for every continuous driver. For SLE it is supplied by the trace-existence theorem.

For the compact H-hull $(x,x+ih]$, the square-root branch asymptotic to $z-x$ gives the hydrodynamic normalization at infinity of its mapping-out function of a compact H-hull. Its expansion has coefficient $h^2/2$, the half-plane capacity of a vertical slit.

For nested compact H-hulls whose closures avoid $x\in \mathbb{R}$, the boundary derivative is an excursion avoidance probability. Avoiding the larger hull is a subset of avoiding the smaller one, which proves the derivative inequality. For a hull contained in $\{|z|\le R\}$ and $|x|>R$, comparison with the filled half-disc gives the sharp bound $1-R^2/x^2\le g_A^{\prime }(x)\le 1$, since that half-disc has mapping-out function $z+R^2/z$. The empty hull and filled half-disc attain the two bounds.

With $m(z)=(z+1)/(1-z)$, the compact H-hull $K_L=m^{-1}(i(0,L])$ is a unit semicircular arc attached at $-1$, with a narrow passage near $1$. As $L\to \infty$, its normalized mapping-out function of a compact H-hull tends to $2$ at each fixed point of the interior bay. Points in that bay tending to $-1$ therefore have displacement approaching three. The order of these two limits is important.

A compact H-hull is a bounded relatively closed subset $K$ of $\mathbb{H}$ with simply connected complement, considered together with its compact closure in $\overline{\mathbb{H}}$. Its unique mapping-out function has hydrodynamic normalization at infinityThe nonnegative coefficient $a_K$ is its half-plane capacity. Thus the half-plane-capacity parameterization here gives $g_t(z)=z+2t/z+O(z^{-2})$. Strict increase means $K_s⊊K_t$ whenever $s<t$; the strictly increasing capacity already excludes equality.

The Loewner local growth property means that the new growth becomes small after removing the old compact H-hull. More precisely set $K_{t,t+h}=\overline{g_t(K_{t+h}\setminus K_t)}$, taking the closure from the complex upper half-plane. On each bounded time interval, the diameters of these image compact H-hulls tend uniformly to zero as $h\downarrow 0$. Equivalently the new growth can be separated from infinity by crosscuts of vanishing diameter in the mapped domain. It is this single-point local growth, together with capacity continuity, that gives a continuous real Loewner driver.

The Loewner transform ${\xi }_t$ is the limiting point at which this mapped growth occurs:The limit is independent of the chosen new-growth points. The Loewner correspondence theorem says that the resulting mapping-out functions satisfyConversely, given a continuous real $\xi$, solve this ordinary differential equation until the maximal lifetime $T_z$ of each $z\in \mathbb{H}$. The surviving set $H_t=\{z:T_z>t\}$ is mapped conformally onto $\mathbb{H}$ by $g_t$; its complement, with the appropriate boundary closure, is $K_t$. The Laurent coefficient is $2t$, and the composition law reconstructs the local growth. A continuous Loewner driver always determines the compact H-hulls; generation by a continuous Loewner trace is an additional property, not a conclusion for every continuous Loewner driver.

A chordal SLE Loewner trace in the complex upper half-plane with parameter $\kappa \ge 0$ is the continuous curve associated with the Loewner driver ${\xi }_t=\sqrt{\kappa }{B}_t$, where $B$ is standard real Brownian motion started at zero. It starts at zero, its compact H-hull at time $t$ is the curve's past with all pockets cut off from infinity filled, andThe capacity clock has $\mathrm{hcap}(K_t)=2t$. For $\kappa =0$ this gives the vertical slit $\gamma (t)=2i\sqrt{t}$.

To prove Scaling invariance of SLE, fix $r>0$ and putThe Laurent series of ${\hat{g}}_t$ has coefficient $2t$, and direct differentiation givesBrownian scaling says $(r^{-1}{B}_{r^{2}t}{)}_{t\ge 0}$ has the same law as $B$. The Loewner drivers therefore agree in law, and uniqueness of the Chordal Loewner equation gives equality in law of the maps, compact H-hulls, and continuous Loewner traces:This identifies the time change $t\mapsto r^{2}t$ as well as the spatial scaling.

For a simply connected Jordan domain $D$ with distinct marked boundary points, choose a conformal bijection $f:\mathbb{H}\to D$ taking zero to the initial point and infinity to the target, and use $f(\gamma )$ as an unparameterized curve. The Caratheodory boundary extension theorem supplies the boundary values of $f$. Any second such map is $f\circ (z\mapsto rz)$ for $r>0$, because the automorphisms of $\mathbb{H}$ fixing zero and infinity are positive dilations. The Scaling invariance of SLE just proved makes the two image laws identical, up to the corresponding deterministic change of capacity clock. Thus this defines SLE consistently in marked Jordan domains. The assumed $|\gamma (t)|\to \infty$ and the continuous boundary extension give $f(\gamma (t))\to f(\infty )$, the specified target. The law is conformally natural and does not impose a distinguished half-plane-capacity parameterization on an arbitrary domain.