Explicit formulas for Green's functions on the annulus and on the Möbius strip (Q1281453)

The idea to extend the use of Green's function to the study of nonorientable surfaces is about a half century old. In this paper, the authors convince us that Green's function on a nonorientable surface has the same power of exploration and the same elegance as in the orientable realm. The dianalytic structures of nonorientable surfaces are related to some symmetric conformal metrics on their orientable double cover. Given a fixed point free antianalytic involution \(k\) of a domain \(G\) in the complex plane, bounded by a finite number of analytic curves, \(k\)-invariant Green's formulas are rewritten in terms of such metrics. The Lindelöf's principle is extended to \(k\)-invariant Green's functions. When \(G\) is the annulus, \(k\)-invariant Green's functions are obtained in the explicit form. Since the factorization of the annulus by the group \(\langle k\rangle\), generated by \(k\), produces a Möbius strip, the respective result allows to obtain explicit forms for Green's functions on the Möbius strip. The concept of the normal derivative is also reformulated.