Quasiconformal maps with thin dilatations (Q2154819)

The author gives an estimate that quantifies the fact that a normalized quasiconformal map whose dilatation is non-zero only on a set of small area approximates the identity uniformly on the whole plane. To be more precise, a measurable set \(E\) in the complex plane \(\mathbb C\) is said to be \((\epsilon, h)\)-thin if \(\epsilon>0\) and area\((E\cap D(z, 1))\le\epsilon h(|z|)\) for all \(z\in\mathbb C\), where \(h:[0, \infty]\to [0, \pi]\) is a bounded decreasing function such that \(\int_0^{\infty}h(r)r^ndr<\infty\) for every \(n>1\). Let \(F\) be a quasiconformal map on the whole plane which is conformal near \(\infty\) and satisfies the normalized condition \(F(z)=z+O(1/|z|)\) as \(z\to\infty\). Suppose the complex dilatation \(\mu\) is small in the sense that \(E=\{z: \mu(z)\neq 0\}\) is \((\epsilon, h)\)-thin. Then for all \(z\in\mathbb C\) \[|F(z)-z|\le\frac{\epsilon^{\beta}}{|z|+1},\] where \(\beta>0\) depends only on \(\|\mu\|_{\infty}\) and \(h\). In particular, as \(\epsilon\to 0\), \(F\) converges uniformly to the identity on the whole plane.