Quasiconformal immersions of Riemannian manifolds and a Picard type theorem (Q5930957)

The author considers quasiconformal immersions, i.e., locally invertible quasiconformal mappings. His main result of this paper is Theorem 1. Let \(M^n\) and \(N^n\) be Riemannian manifolds of finite dimension \(n\geq 3\), \(\dot U=U\setminus \{o\}\) a punctured neighborhood of a point \(o\in M^n\), and \(f:\dot U\to N^n\) a quasiconformal immersion. If \(f\) is not injective in any punctured neighborhood of \(o\), then each germ \(f_p^{-1}\) of the locally inverse mapping can be continued along every path in \(N^n\) issuing from \(p\in N^n\) and avoiding the image \(f(\partial U)\) of the boundary of \(U\). Furthermore, he proves the following version of the Picard theorem being one without omitted values. Theorem 2. Let \(M^n\) and \(N^n\) be Riemannian manifolds of the same dimension \(n\geq 3\), and let \(f:M^n\to N^n\) be a quasiconformal immersion with an isolated singular point. Then the following alternative holds: either (a) \(f\) has a limit (finite or infinite) at the isolated singular point, or (b) \(f\) maps every punctured neighborhood of the singular point onto the entire \(N^n\).