Use the Chordal Loewner equation with . For a fixed , let be its Loewner swallowing time, and write and before that time. The Loewner conformal radius is , half of the conformal radius of at . The Koebe quarter theorem bounds the conformal radius above by four times the distance to the boundary. For the reverse comparison, if maps zero to , apply the Schwarz lemma to on the unit disc, where ; it gives . Thus
We use the basic trace theorems that, for , the Loewner trace is continuous and Transience of chordal SLE gives . These facts make its image relatively closed in ; they do not assume the space-filling conclusion. The continuity and transience statements are available in Rohde and Schramm's basic trace theorems.
Take in the supplied SLE interior-point martingale. The derivative exponent vanishes, leaving
A nonnegative local martingale is a supermartingale. Applying the optional stopping theorem after localization at its first hit of a level gives the maximal inequality for a nonnegative supermartingale
Thus almost surely.
Suppose the Loewner trace avoids some open ball whose closure is inside . Before , the whole open ball is in : a connected open ball disjoint from the trace cannot be partly in the unbounded connected component. Hence . The bound on forces throughout this interval, for a positive random constant .
The Chordal Loewner equation and its derivative yield
The first identity forces , since otherwise becomes negative. At a finite maximal lifetime, ; otherwise the continuous Loewner driving function and the ordinary differential equation continue past that time. Integrating the last identity, using , gives
contradicting . Thus every fixed rational ball inside is hit almost surely. A countable intersection makes the trace a dense subset almost surely, and its relatively closed image, established by continuity and transience, then contains all of :
This proves space-filling SLE above parameter eight. It rules out unvisited open regions, rather than inferring visits merely from membership in the filled compact H-hulls. The choice does not address the critical value eight.
This is Schwarz lemma. Define for and . The removable singularity makes holomorphic. Applying the maximum modulus principle to on disks of radius , then letting , gives . Hence
Because avoids the closed negative real axis, its principal square root is holomorphic, satisfies , and has . The Cayley transform between the half-plane and disk
maps the right half-plane into the unit disk and has . By Schwarz lemma, . When ,
Thus
so one may take the universal constant .
In local coordinates around and , a nonconstant analytic map has the form
After shrinking the chart, has an analytic th root, so a change of coordinate makes the map . It maps small discs onto neighborhoods of the origin; hence every nonconstant analytic map of Riemann surfaces is open. If is compact and connected, is compact and therefore closed, and it is also nonempty and open. Thus .
For with , the removable-singularity theorem makes analytic. On , , and the maximum principle gives the same bound throughout . Applying the Schwarz lemma to an automorphism and to shows that every automorphism fixing zero is
If is an analytic isomorphism fixing zero, continuity of implies that the preimage of every closed disc is compact. Hence as , and defining gives an analytic isomorphism of the Riemann sphere.
Consequently an automorphism of fixing zero does extend to . A general disc automorphism need not: for ,
has a finite pole and cannot extend to an entire isomorphism.