On the de branges theorem

DOI10.1080/17476939608814961MaRDI QIDQ4354001zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Koepf, Dieter Schmersau

Publication date 2 March 1998

Published in Complex Variables, Theory and Application: An International Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9603216

zbMATH Keywords

Bieberbach conjecturegenerating functionsLöwner differential equationMilin conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coefficient problems for univalent and multivalent functions of one complex variable (30C50) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, other methods (30C75) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45)

Abstract: Recently, Todorov and Wilf independently realized that de Branges' original proof of the Bieberbach and Milin conjectures and the proof that was later given by Weinstein deal with the same special function system that de Branges had introduced in his work. In this article, we present an elementary proof of this statement based on the defining differential equations system rather than the closed representation of de Branges' function system. Our proof does neither use special functions (like Wilf's) nor the residue theorem (like Todorov's) nor the closed representation (like both), but is purely algebraic. On the other hand, by a similar algebraic treatment, the closed representation of de Branges' function system is derived. In a final section, we give a simple representation of a generating function of the de Branges functions.

Review text

The authors begin with a short summary of the history of the Bieberbach conjecture. P. Todorov [1992] and H. Wilf [1994] independently discovered an equation connecting the de Branges functions and the Weinstein functions. The authors give an elementary, purely algebraic proof of this equation. The last sentence from the authors' introduction summarizes the paper: ``Therefore, in a very elementary manner it is shown that the known proofs of the Bieberbach and Milin conjectures can be understood as a consequence of the Löwner differential equation, plus properties of the Koebe function. It is interesting to note that MATHEMATICA played an important role in the discovery of one of the results in this paper.

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