Abstract: | Given a family of quasiconformal deformations such that has a uniform bound , the solution of the Löwner-type differential equation ![\begin{equation*}\frac{dw}{dt}=F(w, t)\end{equation*}](http://www.ams.org/proc/2000-128-01/S0002-9939-99-04980-1/gif-abstract/img5.gif)
is an -quasiconformal mapping. An open question is to determine, for each fixed , whether the extremality of is equivalent to that of . The note gives this a negative approach in both directions. |