The conformal radius as a function and its gradient image

Special classes of univalent and multivalent functions of one complex variable (starlike, convex, bounded rotation, etc.) (30C45) General theory of univalent and multivalent functions of one complex variable (30C55) Quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane (30C62)

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The authors give characterizations of convex sets or domains in \(\overline{\mathbb{C}}\) in terms of their conformal/hyperbolic radius \(R\) and in terms of their mappings by the gradient function \(\nabla{R}\). They use the complex-valued mapping \(\nabla{R}(\cdot, \Omega)\,:\, \Omega \longrightarrow \overline{\mathbb C}\) to give a unified proof and some generalizations of a number of known results on convexity of \(\Omega\) or \({\mathbb C}\setminus{\Omega}\) when the Jacobian \(J(\cdot, \Omega)\) of the gradient is non-negative. For example, for simply connected domains \(\Omega\) with \(J(\cdot, \Omega)\geq 0\), the convex domain \(\Omega\) is neither a half-plane nor a strip nor an angular domain \(\Leftrightarrow\) the hyperbolic radius \(R(\cdot, \Omega)\) is a strictly concave function \(\Leftrightarrow\) the function \(\nabla{R}(\cdot, \Omega)\) is a diffeomorphism of \(\Omega\) onto a domain \(G\) contained in the disk \(D_2=\{\zeta\,:\,| \zeta| <2\}\). This theorem characterizes a result by Kim, Minda, and Wright in terms of \(\nabla{R}(\cdot, \Omega)\) and contains a classic result by Löwner. The authors give similar characterizations for other types of domains, including doubly connected domains.

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