Chord-arc curves and the Beurling transform (Q2630281)

A Jordan curve \(\Gamma\) on the Riemann sphere \(\hat\mathbb C\) is a chord-arc (or Lavrentiev) curve with constant \(K>0\) if it is locally rectifiable and \[ |s_1-s_2|\leq (1+K)|z(s_1)-z(s_2)| \] for all \(s_1\) and \(s_2\) on the real line \(\mathbb R\), where \(z(s)\) is the parametrization of \(\Gamma\) by the arc-length \(s\in\mathbb R\). In this important paper, the authors discuss the question: Under what conditions on the Beltrami coefficient the corresponding quasiconformal mapping maps the real line onto a chord-arc curve. Their results involve the Beurling transformation \[ Sf(\zeta)=-\frac{1}{\pi}\iint_{\mathbb C}\frac{f(w)}{(w-\zeta)^2}dudv \] on the \(L^2\)-weighted space \[ L^2=\left\{f(u+iv):\mathbb C\to\mathbb C:\iint_{\mathbb C}\frac{|f(w)|^2}{|v|}dudv<\infty\right\}. \] They prove among other things that a quasicircle \(\Gamma\) analytic at \(\infty\) is a chord-arc curve if and only if there exists a quasiconformal mapping \(\rho\) on the Riemann sphere which maps the real line \(\mathbb R\) on \(\Gamma\) and such that its Beltrami coefficient \(\mu\) has a compact support and induces an invertible operator \(I-\mu S\) on the above-mentioned \(L^2\)-weighted space. As an application, the authors recover the \(L^2\) boundedness of the Cauchy integral operator on chord-arc curves, a well-known result due to \textit{G. David} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 32, No. 3, 227--239 (1982; Zbl 0464.30028)].