Department of Mathematics, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee 37212
Abstract:
S. Rohde and O. Schramm have recently shown that the SLE trace is Hölder continuous (2005). However, their results are not optimal for all values of and only yield a Hölder exponent near for near 0. In this paper, we give improved lower bounds on the optimal Hölder exponent for two natural parametrizations of the SLE trace. Our estimates give a Hölder exponent near 1 for near 0, as expected. The work of I. Binder and B. Duplantier (2002) suggests that our results are optimal for the two parametrizations considered.