Teichmüller Extensibility of Circle Homeomorphisms (Q3152116)

This paper is a mystery. It states ``Theorem 1. Suppose, for a sense-preserving self-map of the closed unit disk, that the circumferential correspondence is prescribed so as to admit at least one quasiconformal homeomorphism of its interior. Then there exists a unique extremal quasiconformal mapping of the open unit disk with this boundary correspondence given, which has a constant dilatation.'' This is of course not true. This shows the well-known ``chimney''-example of K. Strebel (in the firstly cited paper) which admits after an elementary modification an infinity of extremal quasiconformal mappings with a constant dilatation. Even when one reads the end of this Theorem 1 as ``\dots which is a Teichmüller mapping'', this is not true. This shows examples of \textit{V. Božin, N. Nakic, V. Markovic} and \textit{M. Mateljevic} [J. Anal. Math. 75, 299--338 (1998; Zbl 0929.30017)]. At the end of the paper there is the attempt to construct a simple explicit expression for the minimal dilatation in the class of all quasiconformal mappings with given boundary values. But this is ``zu schön um wahr zu sein'' (too good to be true).