Quasiconformal Lipschitz maps, Sullivan's convex hull theorem and Brennan's conjecture (Q1426920)

Let \(\Omega\subsetneq\mathbb R^2\) be a simply connected domain and let \(C(\partial\Omega)\subset\mathbb H^3\) be the hyperbolic convex hull of \(\partial\Omega\) (this is the hyperbolic convex hull of the set of all hyperbolic geodesies with endpoints in \(\partial\Omega\)). The purpose of this paper is to point out a connection between three dimensional hyperbolic geometry and the expanding properties of planar conformal maps. In particular, it is shown that a result of \textit{D. Sullivan } about convex hulls in hyperbolic 3-space implies that there is a \(K<\infty\) such that any conformal map \(f:\mathbb D\to \Omega\) can be factored as \(f=g\circ h\) where \(h:\mathbb D\to\mathbb D\) is a \(K\)-quasiconformal self-map of the disk and \(g:\mathbb D\to\Omega\) is expanding in the sense that \(| g'| >C| f'(0)| \) for all \(z\in\mathbb D\). One consequence is that if (even a weak version of) Sullivan's theorem could be proved with its conjectured sharp constant \(K=2\), then the Brennan conjecture would follow. In particular, there exists always a Lipschitz homeomorphism from any simply connected \(\Omega\) (with its internal path metric) to the unit disk.