A guide to Stochastic Löwner evolution and its applications

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 1149-1229

  Kager, Wouter ^a   Nienhuis, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformal invariance; Conformal mappings; Critical exponents; L wner's equation; Scaling limits; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543011408     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:joss.0000028058.87266.be     Document Type: Article

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