Abstract: | We construct domains in the plane such that if is the Green's function of with pole at zero, while is the symmetric non-increasing rearrangement of for each fixed and is the Green's function of the circular symmetrization , again with pole at zero, then there are positive numbers and such that ![\begin{equation*}G^{*}(r e^{i\theta }) < \tilde G(r e^{i\theta }), \end{equation*}](http://www.ams.org/proc/1996-124-06/S0002-9939-96-03196-6/gif-abstract/img19.gif)
whenever . One of our constructions will have simply connected. We also consider the case where the poles of the Green's functions do not lie at the origin. Our work provides a negative answer to a question of Hayman (1967). |