Transcendental harmonic mappings and gravitational lensing by isothermal galaxies

DOI10.1007/S11785-010-0050-0MaRDI QIDQ601080zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitry Khavinson, Erik Lundberg

Publication date 3 November 2010

Published in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3310

zbMATH Keywords

complex dynamics``bright images of a single source``Schwarz function of an ellipseargument principle for harmonic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric function theory (30C99) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: Using the Schwarz function of an ellipse, it was recently shown that galaxies with density constant on confocal ellipses can produce at most four ``bright images of a single source. The more physically interesting example of an isothermal galaxy has density that is constant on emph{homothetic} ellipses. In that case bright images can be seen to correspond to zeros of a certain transcendental harmonic mapping. We use complex dynamics to give an upper bound on the total number of such zeros.

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