Existence of energy-minimal diffeomorphisms between doubly connected domains (Q658960)

From the authors' abstract: The paper establishes the existence of homeomorphisms between two planar domains that minimize the Dirichlet energy. Among all homeomorphisms \(f: W \to W^{*}\) between bounded doubly connected domains such that \(\text{Mod} \Omega \leq \text{Mod} \Omega^{\ast}\) there exists, unique up to conformal automorphisms of \(\Omega \), an energy-minimal diffeomorphism. Here \(\text{Mod}\) stands for the conformal modulus of a domain. No boundary conditions are imposed on \(f\).