Grunsky inequalities and quasiconformal extension

The Grunsky coefficient inequalities play a crucial role in various problems and are intrinsically connected with the integrable holomorphic quadratic differentials having only zeros of even order. For the functions with quasi-conformal extensions, the Grunsky constant ℵ(f) and the extremal dilatationk(f) are related by ℵ(f)≤k(f). In 1985, Jürgen Moser conjectured that any univalent functionf(z)=z+b ₀+b ₁ z ⁻¹+… on Δ*={|z|>1} can be approximated locally uniformly by functions with ℵ(f)<k(f). In this paper, we prove a theorem confirming Moser’s conjecture, which sheds new light on the features of Grunsky coefficients. In memory of Jürgen Moser The research was supported by the RiP program of the Volkswagen-Stiftung in the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.     

Doubling measures and quasiconformal maps

Part of the research for this paper was done while the author was visiting the Mittag-Leffler Institute. She wishes to thank the Institute for its hospitality. The author was also supported by Grant #DMS 9004251 from the U.S. National Science Foundation.     

Bounded turning and quasiconformal maps

We considern-dimensional quasiconformal maps of an arbitrary domain onto a domain with specific properties and prove various results related to the Hayman-Wu theorem.     

Local boundary dilatation of quasiconformal maps

By studying the existence problem of locally extremal Beltrami differential posed by F. Gardiner and N. Lakic, we introduce a new definition of the local boundary dilatations of points in Teichmuller spaces of simply connected plane domains, which is the same as the usual ones in the case of Jordan domains. Then we show that the answer to the problem of F. Gardiner and N. Lakic is affirmative according to this new definition. Comparing with the usual definitions, the problem of F. Gardiner and N. Lakic is partly answered and the results of G. Cui and Y. Qi is generalized.     

Convergence of characteristics of quasiconformal maps

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Removability theorems for Sobolev functions and quasiconformal maps

We establish several conditions, sufficient for a set to be (quasi)conformally removable, a property important in holomorphic dynamics. This is accomplished by proving removability theorems for Sobolev spaces inR ⁿ . The resulting conditions are close to optimal. The first author is supported by N.S.F. Grant No. DMS-9423746. The second author is supported by N.S.F. Grants No. DMS-9304580 and DMS-9706875.     

Evolution of conformal maps with quasiconformal extensions

We study one-parameter curves on the universal Teichmüller space T and on the homogeneous space M=DiffS¹/RotS¹ embedded into T. As a result, we deduce evolution equations for conformal maps that admit quasiconformal extensions and, in particular, such that the associated quasidisks are bounded by smooth Jordan curves. This approach allows us to understand the Laplacian growth (Hele-Shaw problem) as a flow in the Teichmüller space.     

Inner estimate and quasiconformal harmonic maps between smooth domains

We prove a type of “inner estimate” for quasi-conformal diffeomorphisms, which satisfies a certain estimate concerning their Laplacian. This, in turn, implies that quasiconformal harmonic mappings between smooth domains (with respect to an approximately analytic metric), have bounded partial derivatives; in particular, these mappings are Lipschitz. We discuss harmonic mappings with respect to (a) spherical and Euclidean metrics (which are approximately analytic) (b) the metric induced by a holomorphic quadratic differential.     

Singular values, quasiconformal maps and the Schottky upper bound

Some properties and asymptotically sharp bounds are obtained for singdar values of Ramanujan’s generalized modular equation. from which infinite-product representations of the Hersch-Pfluger ϕdimtortion function ϕ _K (r) and the Agard η-distortion function η _K (t) follow. By these results, the explicit quasiconformal Schwan lemma is improved, several properties are obtained for the Schottky upper bound, and a conjecture on the linear distortion function λ (K) is proved to be true.     

Computing quasiconformal maps using an auxiliary metric and discrete curvature flow

Surface mapping plays an important role in geometric processing, which induces both area and angular distortions. If the angular distortion is bounded, the mapping is called a quasiconformal mapping (QC-Mapping). Many surface mappings in our physical world are quasiconformal. The angular distortion of a QC mapping can be represented by the Beltrami differentials. According to QC Teichmüller theory, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of Beltrami differentials and the set of QC surface mappings under normalization conditions. Therefore, every QC surface mapping can be fully determined by the Beltrami differential and reconstructed by solving the so-called Beltrami equation. In this work, we propose an effective method to solve the Beltrami equation on general Riemann surfaces. The solution is a QC mapping associated with the prescribed Beltrami differential. The main strategy is to define an auxiliary metric (AM) on the domain surface, such that the original QC mapping becomes conformal under the auxiliary metric. The desired QC-mapping can then be obtained by using the conventional conformal mapping method. In this paper, we first formulate a discrete analogue of QC mappings on triangular meshes. Then, we propose an algorithm to compute discrete QC mappings using the discrete Yamabe flow method. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to compute the discrete QC mappings for general Riemann surfaces, especially with different topologies. Numerically, the discrete QC mapping converges to the continuous solution as the mesh grid size approaches to 0. We tested our algorithm on surfaces scanned from real life with different topologies. Experimental results demonstrate the generality and accuracy of our auxiliary metric method.     

Around Choi inequalities for positive linear maps

We show an inequality for unital positive linear maps Φ interpolating Choi’s inequality (p=0) with a recent result of Bourin and Ricard (r=1):