On the local behavior of certain homeomorphisms (Q1340414)

The authors study homeomorphic mappings \(w(z)\) of the unit disc \(U\) onto itself with \(w(0) = 0\), assuming a sufficient degree of smoothness so that, in particular, the complex dilation \(\kappa\) is defined almost everywhere. Here \(\| \kappa \|_ \infty \leq 1\) (for \(\kappa\)- quasiconformal mappings \(\| \kappa \|_ \infty \leq 1)\): The authors introduce the concept of such a mapping being asymptotically a rotation on circles: \(w(z)\) is said to be asymptotically a rotation on circles if \(| w(z) | \sim A | z |\), \(A > 0\), as \(z \to 0\) and for an appropriate chance of the arguments \(\arg w(re^{i \theta_ 2}) - \arg w(re^{i \theta_ 1}) - (\theta_ 2 - \theta_ 1)\) tends to zero uniformly in \(\theta_ 1\) and \(\theta_ 2\) as \(r\) tends to zero. They give a sufficient condition for this to obtain in terms of the modules of quadrangles and use it to prove the following results. If \((\varphi=\arg z)\) \[ \iint_ U {| \kappa |^ 2 + | {\mathcal R} e^{-2i \varphi} \kappa |\over 1 - | \kappa |^ 2} {dA \over | z |^ 2} < \infty \] \(w(z)\) is asymptotically a rotation on circles. If \[ \iint_ U {| \kappa | \over 1 - | \kappa |} {dA \over | z |^ 2} < \infty \] then \(w(z)\) is conformal at \(z = 0\), i.e., \(\lim_{z \to 0} {w(z) \over z} = c\), \(c \neq 0\). They give an application to the asymptotic behavior of parallel strip mappings and show by an example that the result obtained is superior to the corresponding result obtained by a similar application of the usual Teichmüller-Wittich-Belinski theorem.