Rohde, SteffenWong, Chun Wai Carto2013-02-252013-02-252013-02-252012Wong_washington_0250E_10796.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/21759Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012In this dissertation, we show that the chordal Loewner differential equation with C^{beta} driving function generates a C^{beta + 1/2} slit for 1/2 < beta <= 2, except when beta = 3/2 the slit is only proved to be weakly C^{1,1}.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.MathematicsMathematicsThesis