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DIFFUSING POLYGONS AND SLE(κ, ρ) ROBERT O. BAUER AND ROLAND M. FRIEDRICH Abstract. We give a geometric derivation of SLE(κ, ρ) in terms of con- formally invariant random growing compact subsets of polygons. The parameters ρj are related to the exterior angles of the polygons. We also show that SLE(κ, ρ) can be generated by a metric Brownian mo- tion, where metric and Brownian motion are coupled and the metric is a pull-back metric of the Euclidean metric of an evolving polygon. 1. Introduction Stochastic Loewner evolution (or SLE) as introduced by Schramm in [12] describes random growing compacts in a simply connected planar domain D. Schramm discovered SLE by considering discrete random simple curves which satisfy (1) a Markovian-type property and whose scaling limit was conjec- tured to be (2) conformally invariant. These two properties (plus a reflection symmetry) render SLE canonical in the sense that there exists only a one- parameter family of random non-self-crossing curves γ with these properties. They are all obtained by solving L¨owner’s equation [9] with a driving function given in terms of Brownian motion. If D is the upper half-plane H, and κ ≥ 0, consider for each z ∈ H the ordinary differential equation 2 (1.1) ∂ g (z) = , g (z) = z, t t 0 g (z) − W t t where W = √κB , and B is a one-dimensional standard Brownian motion. t t t Let Tz be the duration for which this equation is well defined, i.e. Tz = sup{t :