Planar harmonic mappings with non-bounded dilatation (Q2764258)

The main result is the following: Let \({\mathcal J}\) denote the collection of all solutions in the Sobolev space \(W^{1,2}_{\text{loc}}(U\setminus\delta)\) of the equation \(\overline f_{\bar z}= af_z\) where \(a\) is a meromorphic function in \(U\setminus\delta\) with a finite sphere Dirichlet integral and some additive conditions, \(U\) is the unit disk and \(\delta\) is a compact ABC-removable set in \(U\). Suppose \(f\in{\mathcal J}\) is a mapping of \(U\setminus\delta\) onto \(\Omega\) and \(\gamma\) is a convex arc on \(\partial\Omega\). The authors prove that if \(|a[f^{-1}(\zeta_n)]|\to 1\) for each point \(\zeta\in \gamma\) and any sequence \(\zeta_n\to\zeta\) in \(\Omega\), then \(\gamma\) must be a line segment.