Some problems of conformal mappings of spherical domains

In this study the problem of finding the conformal mapping from a sphere onto a plane with a given scale function independent of longitude is solved for an arbitrary spherical domain. The obtained results are compared with the well-known projections used in cartography and geophysical fluid dynamics. The problem of minimization of the distortion under conformal mappings is solved for domains in the form of the spherical disk. The distortions of some extensively used conformal mappings are compared with the distortions of orthogonal mappings.     

Some problems of conformal mappings of spherical domains

In this study the problem of finding the conformal mapping from a sphere onto a plane with a given scale function independent of longitude is solved for an arbitrary spherical domain. The obtained results are compared with the well-known projections used in cartography and geophysical fluid dynamics. The problem of minimization of the distortion under conformal mappings is solved for domains in the form of the spherical disk. The distortions of some extensively used conformal mappings are compared with the distortions of orthogonal mappings.     

Conjugate function method for numerical conformal mappings

We present a method for numerical computation of conformal mappings from simply or doubly connected domains onto so-called canonical domains, which in our case are rectangles or annuli. The method is based on conjugate harmonic functions and properties of quadrilaterals. Several numerical examples are given.     

QCMC: quasi-conformal parameterizations for multiply-connected domains

This paper presents a method to compute the quasi-conformal parameterization (QCMC) for a multiply-connected 2D domain or surface. QCMC computes a quasi-conformal map from a multiply-connected domain S onto a punctured disk D _S associated with a given Beltrami differential. The Beltrami differential, which measures the conformality distortion, is a complex-valued function \(\mu :S\to \mathbb {C}\) with supremum norm strictly less than 1. Every Beltrami differential gives a conformal structure of S. Hence, the conformal module of D _S , which are the radii and centers of the inner circles, can be fully determined by μ, up to a Möbius transformation. In this paper, we propose an iterative algorithm to simultaneously search for the conformal module and the optimal quasi-conformal parameterization. The key idea is to minimize the Beltrami energy with the conformal module of the parameter domain incorporated. The optimal solution is our desired quasi-conformal parameterization onto a punctured disk. The parameterization of the multiply-connected domain simplifies numerical computations and has important applications in various fields, such as in computer graphics and vision. Experiments have been carried out on synthetic data together with real multiply-connected Riemann surfaces. Results show that our proposed method can efficiently compute quasi-conformal parameterizations of multiply-connected domains and outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms. Applications of the proposed parameterization technique have also been explored.     

Boundary behavior of derivatives of conformal mappings of simply connected domains

Conformal mappings of simply connected domains G on a disc or a half-plane are considered in the case when boundaries consist of smooth boundary arcs Γ reachable from inside of G. Sufficient conditions for existence of an angular limit of the derivative of such mappings and its bounded-ness at some given boundary point are found. A sufficient condition of existence of a bounded derivative on the region boundary is given as a corollary.     

An efficient and novel numerical method for quasiconformal mappings of doubly connected domains

A numerical method for quasiconformal mapping of doubly connected domains onto annuli is presented. The ratio R of the radii of the annulus is not known a priori and is determined as part of the solution procedure. The numerical method presented in this paper requires solving iteratively a sequence of inhomogeneous Beltrami equations, each for a different R. R is updated using a procedure based on the bisection method. The new method is an extension of Daripas method for the quasiconformal mapping of the exterior of simply connected domains onto the interior of unit disks [15]. It uses fast and accurate algorithms for evaluating certain singular integrals and is, thus, very efficient and accurate. Its performance is demonstrated for several doubly connected domains.     

Complex interpolation spaces on multiply-connected domains

Variants of Calderón's interpolation spaces [A₀, A₁]_θ which are defined using a multiply-connected domain instead of the strip 0 < Re z < 1 are considered. It is shown that they coincide to within equivalence of norms with Calderón's spaces. This result applies also to spaces obtained by generalised forms of Calderón's construction due to Coifman, Cwikel, Rochberg, Sagher, and Weiss (Advan. in Math.43 (1982), 203–229).     

An integral equation method for the numerical conformal mapping of interior,exterior and doubly-connected domains

Numerische Mathematik - A numerical method, based on the integral equation formulation of Symm, is described for computing approximations to the mapping functions which accomplish the following...     

New extremal properties for constructing conformal mappings

Summary It is well known that for a given simply connected regionR containing zero the uniform norm attains its minimum in the class of all holomorphic functions normalized byf(0)=0 andf(0)=1 only for the conformal mappingfRD(r)={z|z|}. It is shown that this theorem is still valid if one replaces the ordinary modulus | | on by any other norm on . For instance it is possible to obtain direct mappings ofR onto parallelograms, rectangles and ellipses. For the special norms |₁ and | this leads to a simple and fast computational technique involving linear programming methods. Several numerical examples are given.     

Compact operators and Toeplitz algebras on multiply-connected domains

If Ω is a smoothly bounded multiply-connected domain in the complex plane and S belongs to the Toeplitz algebra τ of the Bergman space of Ω, we show that S is compact if and only if its Berezin transform vanishes at the boundary of Ω. We also show that every element S in T, the C^?-subalgebra of τ generated by Toeplitz operators with symbols in H^∞(Ω), has a canonical decomposition for some R in the commutator ideal CT; and S is in CT iff the Berezin transform vanishes identically on the set M₁ of trivial Gleason parts.     

An approximation method for strictly pseudocontractive mappings

Let K$K$ be a closed convex subset of a q$q$-uniformly smooth separable Banach space, T:K→K$T:K\to K$ a strictly pseudocontractive mapping, and f:K→K$f:K\to K$ an L$L$-Lispschitzian strongly pseudocontractive mapping. For any t∈(0,1)$t\in (0,1)$, let _xt$x_t$ be the unique fixed point of tf+(1-t)T$\mathit{tf}+(1-t)T$. We prove that if T$T$ has a fixed point, then {_xt}$\{x_t\}$ converges to a fixed point of T$T$ as t$t$ approaches to 0.