The tension equation with holomorphic coefficients, harmonic mappings and rigidity

DOI10.1080/17476933.2014.1002191zbMATH Open1325.30022arXiv1310.4871OpenAlexW2012721582MaRDI QIDQ5264645FDOQ5264645

Authors: Gaven J. Martin 

Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The tension equation for a mapping $f:mathbbComathbbC$ is the nonlinear second order equation [ Delta f +varphi(f) f_z f_{�ar z} = 0] Solutions are "harmonic" mappings. Here we give a complete description of the solution space of mappings of degree 1 to this equation when $varphi$ is entire. Each solution is a quasiconformal surjection and when the set of normalised solutions is endowed with the Teichm"uller metric, the solution space is isometric to the hyperbolic plane. More generally, for harmonic mappings $f:Omegao(ildeOmega,ho)$ between domains in $mathbbC$, with $ho(w)|dw|$ defining a flat metric we stablish a very strong maximum principle for the distortion - up to multiplicative factor $e^{iv}$, $v$ real and harmonic, the Beltrami coefficient of $f^{-1}$ is quasiregular - and thus open and discrete when nonconstant. This follows from the remarkable fact that the Beltrami coefficient of the inverse of a harmonic mapping itself satisfies a nonlinear homogeneous Beltrami equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4871

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zbMATH Keywords

quasiconformal mappingsharmonic mappingstension equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane (30C62)

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