Branched conformal structures and the Dyson superprocess
In the early 1920s, Loewner introduced a constructive approach to the Riemann mapping theorem that realized a conformal mapping as the solution to a differential equation. Roughly, the “input” to Loewner’s differential equation is a driving measure and the “output” is a family of nested, conformally equivalent domains. This theory was revitalized in the late 1990s by Schramm. The Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) is a stochastic family of slit mappings driven by Loewner’s equation when the driving measure is an atom executing Brownian motion.