scientific article; zbMATH DE number 140210

Publication date 28 March 1993

hyperbolic metric minimum point superharmonic function

Geometric function theory (30C99) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00080.] The author establishes two results for the density \(\rho_ \Omega\) of the Poincaré (hyperbolic) metric on a hyperbolic region \(\Omega\) in the complex plane. First, for a locally univalent function \(f\) defined on \(\Omega\), \(| f'|/\rho_ \Omega\) is superharmonic on \(\Omega\) if and only if \(\Omega\) is simply connected, \(f\) is univalent and \(f(\Omega)\) is convex. For \(f\) the identity function this shows that \(\Omega\) is convex if and only if \(1/\rho_ \Omega\) is superharmonic. The second result deals with the problem of determining conditions under which \(\rho_ \Omega\) has a unique minimum point. Roughly speaking, the author proves that if a simply connected region \(\Omega\) is simultaneously nearly bounded and nearly convex in certain quantitative senses, then \(\rho_ \Omega\) has a unique minimum point. [In the special case that \(\Omega\) is convex and bounded, the latter result follows from work of the reviewer and \textit{D. J. Wright}, Univalence criteria and the hyperbolic metric, Rocky Mt. J. Math. 12, 471-479 (1982; Zbl 0517.30008)].

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