The Beltrami equations and lower \(Q\)-homeomorphisms (Q2879976)

The present paper is devoted to the study of the Beltrami equation with degeneration, \(f_{\overline z}=\mu(z)\cdot f_z\), where \(\| K_{\mu}\|_{\infty}=\infty\) and \(K_{\mu}(z):=\frac{1+| \mu(z)| }{1-| \mu(z)| }\). The methods involved are closely connected with the so-called lower \(Q\)-homeomorphisms introduced recently. Let \(D\subset {\mathbb C}\) be a domain. A homeomorphism \(f:D\rightarrow {\mathbb C}\) is said to be a lower \(Q\)-homeomorphism at the point \(z_0\in \overline{D}\), if \(f\) satisfies some lower integral estimate under the image of the family of intersections \(\left\{S(z_0, \varepsilon)\right\}\cap D\) of the spheres \(S(z_0, \varepsilon)\) with \(D\). By definition, the properties of the right-hand part of that integral estimate depend on a given measurable function \(Q: D\rightarrow (0, \infty)\). The main result of the work is the following. Let \(f:D\rightarrow {\mathbb C}\) be a solution of the Beltrami equation \(f_{\overline z}=\mu(z)\cdot f_z\) in \(W_{\text{loc}}^{1,1}(D)\). Then \(f\) is a lower \(Q\)-homeomorphism with \(Q(z)=K_{\mu}(z)\) at every point \(z_0\in \overline{D}\). The results obtained in the paper can be applied to various problems in the plane and in higher dimension.