On univalence of the power deformation \( z\left(\frac{f(z)} {z}\right)^c \) (Q1938722)

The authors continue the work [\textit{Y. C. Kim} and \textit{T. Sugawa}, Monatsh. Math. 167, No. 2, 231--240 (2012; Zbl 1259.30019)] studying the set \(U_f\) of \(c\in {\mathbb C}\) such that the power deformation \(z\left(\frac{f(z)}{z}\right)^c\) is univalent in the unit disk \(|z|<1\) for a given analytic univalent function \(f(z)=z+a_2z^2+\cdots\) in the unit disk. They show that \(U_f\) is a compact, polynomially convex subset unless \(f\) is the identity function; also it is shown that the interior of \(U_f\) is simply connected. Using this fact they are able to apply various versions of the \(\lambda\)-lemma to the holomorphic family \(z\left(\frac{f(z)}{z}\right)^c\) of injections parametrized over the interior of \(U_f\). Necessary or sufficient conditions for \(U_f\) to contain 0 or 1 as an interior point are also given (\(0\in \text{Int}(U_f)\) if and only if the function \(z\frac{f^\prime(z)}{f(z)}\) is bounded in \({\mathbb D}=\{z:|z|<1\}\); \(1\in \text{Int}(U_f)\) implies \(f\in S\) and the function \(z\frac{f^\prime(z)}{f(z)}\) is bounded away from 0 on \(\mathbb D\)).