A Bieberbach condition for a class of pseudo-analytic functions (Q919138)

The authors consider panharmonic functions, i.e., \(C^ 2\)-solutions of the two-dimensional Yukawa equation \(w_{xx}+w_{yy}=\mu^ 2w\) (\(\mu\) being a positive constant). First, they derive three theorems on ``Fourier expansions'' of (positive) panharmonic functions. Secondly, in the main part of the paper, following \textit{R. J. Duffin} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 35, 105-130 (1971; Zbl 0214.365)], they investigate \(\mu\)-regular pseudo-analytic functions f, i.e., f is representable in the form \[ f(z)=u(x,y)+iv(x,y) \] where u and v are \(C^ 2\)-functions satisfying the generalized Cauchy-Riemann equations \(u_ x=v_ y+\mu u\) and \(u_ y=-v_ x-\mu v\) (thus, u and v are panharmonic functions). In particular, an expansion property is used for the characterization of \(\mu\)-regularity. This implies a method for generating \(\mu\)-regular functions from analytic functions, and thus a vector space isomorphism T (over the reals) is introduced from the space \({\mathcal A}(U)\) of analytic functions in U into the space of \(\mu\)-regular functions in U where U denotes the disk \(| z| <1\). Let \({\mathcal S}\subset {\mathcal A}(U)\) be defined by the assumptions that \(g\in {\mathcal S}\) is univalent in U and satisfies \(g(0)=0\) and \(g'(0)=1\), then for the Fourier coefficients of \(f=T(g)\in T({\mathcal S})\) a Bieberbach type inequality is proved. A similar result is obtained for \(\mu\)-regular functions defined in \({\mathbb{C}}\) and being real on the real axis (and only there). Finitely, an analogue of Liouville's theorem is established that states that a \(\mu\)-regular function bounded in \({\mathbb{C}}\) in the case \(\mu\neq 0\) vanishes identically.