Stability of conformal distortion

DOI10.1007/BF02564489MaRDI QIDQ1343881zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alfred Huber, Reiner Kühnau

Publication date 8 October 1995

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/140341

zbMATH Keywords

conformal welding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal mappings of special domains (30C20)

Review text

Let \(e^{i \theta} \mapsto e^{i \varphi (\theta)}\) be an homeomorphisms of the unit circle \(C = \{| z | = 1)\}\) such that \(\varphi (\theta)\) is a differentiable function with \(\varphi' (\theta) > 0\). Then it is well known that there exists a Jordan curve \(\Gamma\) together with conformal mappings \(F : \text{int} C \to \text{int} \Gamma, G : \text{ext} C \to \text{ext} \Gamma\) satisfying \(F(e^{i \theta)}) = G(e^{i \varphi (\theta)})\). The conformal welding (consisting of \(\Gamma\) and the pair \((F,G))\) is uniquely determined if \(G\) is normalized by \(G(z) = z + O(1/z)\) \((z \to \infty)\). The first result of the authors is that if \(\varphi\) is close to the identity in the sense that \(\varphi' (\theta)\) is close to 1 then the curve \(\Gamma\) is close to a circle in the sense that \(\Gamma\) admits some quasiconformal reflection with small maximal dilatation. This implies also that \(\Gamma\) is contained in some circular ring domain of small modulus. The main result of the paper is that under the assumptions above the problem of conformal welding is ``well posed which means that the solution of the problem is stable in the following sense: If \(\varphi (\theta)\) differs only a little from \(\varphi_ 0 (\theta)\) such that the ratio \(\varphi_ 0' (\theta)/ \varphi' (\theta)\) is again close to 1 then \(\Gamma\) is also close to the curve \(\Gamma_ 0\) corresponding to \(\varphi_ 0\). More precisely the distance in the Hausdorff metric is small. For the proof quasiconformal distortion theorems are used. Furthermore examples are studied showing that the quantitative estimates given in the results above are best possible in a sense. The paper closes with a result on convergence with regard to the Dirichlet norm in the special case that \(\varphi_ 0 (\theta) = \theta\), \(\Gamma_ 0 = C\).

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