A Komatu-Loewner equation for multiple slits (Q476369)

Let \(\Omega \) be a multiply connected domain in the complex plane that consists of the unit disk \(\mathbb{D}\) minus \(n\) proper concentric circular slits. Such domains are called circularly slit disk domains. The authors give a generalization of the Komatu-Loewner equation for the case when \(m\) disjoint, simple and continuous curves grow from the outer boundary \(\partial \mathbb{D}\) of \(\Omega \) into the interior. Thus they obtain a decreasing family \(\{ \Omega _t\}_{t\in [0,T]}\) of domains with \(\Omega _0=\Omega \). They prove that the corresponding Riemann mapping functions \(g_t\) from \(\Omega _t\) onto a circularly slit disk domain, which are normalized by \(g_t(0)=0\) and \(g'(t)>0\), satisfy a Komatu-Loewner differential equation. When \(\Omega \) is a simply connected domain this is the well-known Loewner differential equation. Among the first to extent the Loewner differential equations to multiply connected domains was Komatu in 1943. In recent publications [J. Funct. Anal. 237, No. 2, 565--588 (2006; Zbl 1098.60086); Math. Z. 258, No. 2, 241--265 (2008; Zbl 1130.30006)] \textit{R. O. Bauer} and \textit{R. M. Friedrich} extended the Komatu-Loewner equation to multiply connected domains with one slit (\(m=1\)) that extends from the outer boundary into the interior.