Cluster points and asymptotic values of C^1 and planar harmonic functions

DOI10.1007/BF03321643MaRDI QIDQ2467673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Genevra Neumann

Publication date 28 January 2008

Published in Computational Methods and Function Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508624

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^1\)-functions in \(\mathbb{R}^2\)asymptotic valuescluster set of a functioncritical set of a functionplanar harmonic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functions of several variables (26B99) Polynomials, rational functions in real analysis (26C99) Geometric function theory (30C99) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05)

Abstract: A sufficient condition for a cluster point of a planar harmonic function to be an asymptotic value is given, based on a partitioning into regions of constant valence. A sufficient condition for the cluster set of a planar harmonic function to have non-empty interior is given. An example is given of a planar harmonic function where the image of the critical set is not closed and such that the cluster set has non-empty interior and is a proper subset of the image.

Review text

In 2005, the author published a paper [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 357, No. 8, 3133--3167 (2005; Zbl 1078.30021)] where she studied the properties of complex-valued harmonic functions in the plane. These properties are summarized in the introduction of the paper, together with some similar results obtained by other authors. In the present paper the studies are extended to the \(C^1\)-functions \(f(z)=(u(z),v(z))\) in an open set \(R\subseteq\mathbb R^2\), where \(z= x+ iy\in C\), \(f= u+ iv\). Her attention is focused on the critical set of \(f\) and on the cluster set of \(f\). The critical set of \(f\) is the set of points where the Jacobian vanishes and the cluster set of \(f\) is the set of those finite values \(w\) such that there exists a sequence \(\{z_n\}\subset\mathbb R\) such that \(z_n\to\partial R\cup\{\infty\}\) and \(f(z_n)\to w\). The main results of the paper consist in two theorems. In the first theorem there are given the conditions in which a harmonic function \(f: C\to C\) has the properties: \(\text{int\,}C(f,\infty)\neq \Phi\) and \(\text{Val}(f, w)= \infty\) in a neighborhood of \(w_0\) and in the second one there are given the conditions, in which a \(C^1\)-function on \(\mathbb R^2\) has the property that \(w_0\) is an asymptotic value of \(f\). In the above assertions there were used the following notations: 1. \(C(f,\infty)\) is the cluster set of \(f\) if \(R=\mathbb R^2\), 2. \(\text{Val}(f,w):=\#\{z\in R: f(z)=w\}\). The paper consists in the proofs of these theorems and ends with some examples illustrating the obtained results.

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