The distribution of Picard dimensions (Q759865)

Let \(\Omega\) be the punctured unit disc \(\{0<| z| <1\}\), \(\partial \Omega\) be the unit circle \(\{| z| =1\}\), P be a positive locally Hölder continuous real function on \(\Omega\) \(\cup \partial \Omega\), \(PP_ 1(\Omega,\partial \Omega)\) be the convex set of continuous real functions on \(\Omega\) \(\cup \partial \Omega\), so that \(4(\partial^ 2u)/(\partial z\partial \bar z)=Pu\); \(\int_{\partial \Omega}(\partial u/\partial n)ds=-2\pi\) and \(m\in {\mathbb{N}}\cup \{\aleph_ 0,2^{\aleph_ 0}\}.\) It is shown that P can be chosen in such a way that the set of extremal points of \(PP_ 1(\Omega,\partial \Omega)\) has the cardinality \(m\).