Extremal quasiconformal mappings in plane domains (Q4379876)

This paper provides some important threads of the development in the theories of extremal \(qc\) mappings and Teichmüller space with Teichmüller metric. First the authors give a survey of some classical results in the theory of extremal \(qc\) mappings such as Hamilton-Krushkal' condition for extremality, Reich's theorem for uniquely extremality, Strebel's frame mapping criterion, etc. Then they report on some recent results of their own [\textit{C. J. Earle} and \textit{Li Zhong}, Isometrically embedded polydisks in infinite dimensional Teichmüller spaces, J. Geom. Anal. (to appear)] which contain the converse of Strebel's frame mapping criterion and some equivalent conditions for the nonuniqueness of straight lines passing through two points in the Teichmüller spaces of plane domains. At the end of this paper, they introduce the recent work of N. Lakic on the regularity of the Teichmüller metric in the neighborhood of Strebel's points. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0883.00018].