For $r\in(0,1)$, let $\mu \left( r\right) $ be the modulus of the plane Grötzsch ring $\mathbb{B}^2\setminus[0,r]$, where $\mathbb{B}^2$ is the unit disk. In this paper, we prove that

\begin{equation*}\mu \left( r\right) =\ln \frac{4}{r}-\sum_{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{\theta _{n}}{2n}r^{2n},\end{equation*}

with $\theta _{n}\in \left( 0,1\right)$. Employing this series expansion, we obtain several absolutely monotonic and (logarithmically) completely monotonic functions involving $\mu \left( r\right) $, which yields some new results and extend certain known ones. Moreover, we give an affirmative answer to the conjecture proposed by Alzer and Richards in H. Alzer and K. Richards, On the modulus of the Grötzsch ring, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 432(1): (2015), 134–141, DOI 10.1016/j.jmaa.2015.06.057. As applications, several new sharp bounds and functional inequalities for $\mu \left( r\right) $ are established.

In this article, we establish three new versions of Landau-type theorems for bounded bi-analytic functions of the form $F(z)=\bar {z}G(z)+H(z)$, where G and H are analytic in the unit disk with $G(0)=H(0)=0$ and $H'(0)=1$. In particular, two of them are sharp, while the other one either generalizes or improves the corresponding result of Abdulhadi and Hajj. As consequences, several new sharp versions of Landau-type theorems for certain subclasses of bounded biharmonic mappings are proved.

The purpose of this paper is to initiate a theory concerning the dynamics of asymptotically holomorphic polynomial-like maps. Our maps arise naturally as deep renormalizations of asymptotically holomorphic extensions of $C^r$ ($r>3$) unimodal maps that are infinitely renormalizable of bounded type. Here we prove a version of the Fatou–Julia–Sullivan theorem and a topological straightening theorem in this setting. In particular, these maps do not have wandering domains and their Julia sets are locally connected.

We prove that if $f:\mathbb{B}^n \to \mathbb{B}^n$ , for n ≥ 2, is a homeomorphism with bounded skew over all equilateral hyperbolic triangles, then f is in fact quasiconformal. Conversely, we show that if $f:\mathbb{B}^n \to \mathbb{B}^n$ is quasiconformal then f is η-quasisymmetric in the hyperbolic metric, where η depends only on n and K. We obtain the same result for hyperbolic n-manifolds. Analogous results in $\mathbb{R}^n$ , and metric spaces that behave like $\mathbb{R}^n$ , are known, but as far as we are aware, these are the first such results in the hyperbolic setting, which is the natural metric to use on $\mathbb{B}^n$ .

Assume that $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$ and $D$ are two domains with compact smooth boundaries in the extended complex plane $\overline{\mathbf{C}}$. We prove that every quasiconformal mapping between $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}$ and $D$ mapping $\infty$ onto itself is bi-Lipschitz continuous with respect to both the Euclidean and Riemannian metrics.

Dorff et al. [‘Convolutions of harmonic convex mappings’, Complex Var. Elliptic Equ. 57(5) (2012), 489–503] formulated a question concerning the convolution of two right half-plane mappings, where the normalisation of the functions was considered incorrectly. In this paper, we reformulate the problem correctly and provide a solution to it in a more general form. We also obtain two new theorems which correct and improve related results.

In this paper it is shown that there are infinitely many extremal Beltrami differentials of non-landside type and non-constant modulus in a Teichmüller equivalence class if the class contains a landslide extremal. The result answers, affirmatively in a stronger sense, a problem posed by Li.

Zhou et al. [‘On weakly non-decreasable quasiconformal mappings’, J. Math. Anal. Appl.386 (2012), 842–847] proved that, in a Teichmüller equivalence class, there exists an extremal quasiconformal mapping with a weakly nondecreasable dilatation. They asked whether a weakly nondecreasable dilatation is a nondecreasable dilatation. The aim of this paper is to give a negative answer to their problem. We also construct a Teichmüller class such that it contains an infinite number of weakly nondecreasable extremal representatives, only one of which is nondecreasable.

Our goal in this work is to present some function spaces on the complex plane $\mathbb{C},\,X(\mathbb{C})$, for which the quasiregular solutions of the Beltrami equation, $\bar{\partial }f(z)\,=\,\mu (z)\partial f(z)$, have first derivatives locally in $X(\mathbb{C})$, provided that the Beltrami coefficient $\mu $ belongs to $X(\mathbb{C})$.

In this paper, we investigate the properties of locally univalent and multivalent planar harmonic mappings. First, we discuss coefficient estimates and Landau’s theorem for some classes of locally univalent harmonic mappings, and then we study some Lipschitz-type spaces for locally univalent and multivalent harmonic mappings.

In this paper we present a new discreteness criterion for a non-elementary subgroup G of SL(2, ℂ) containing elliptic elements by using a loxodromic (resp. an elliptic) transformation as a test map that need not be in G.

Suppose that [μ]T(Δ) is a point of the universal Teichmüller space T(Δ). In 1998, Božin, Lakic, Marković, and Mateljević showed that there exists μ such that μ is uniquely extremal in [μ]T(Δ) and has a nonconstant modulus. It is a natural problem whether there is always an extremal Beltrami coefficient of constant modulus in [μ]T(Δ) if [μ]T(Δ) admits infinitely many extremal Beltrami coefficients; the purpose of this paper is to show that the answer is negative. An infinitesimal version is also obtained. Extremal sets of extremal Beltrami coefficients are considered, and an open problem is proposed. The key tool of our argument is Reich’s construction theorem.

Suppose that $T(S_0)$ is the Teichmüller space of a compact Riemann surface $S_0$ of genus $g>1$. Let $d_T(\cdot,\cdot)$ be the Teichmüller metric of $T(S_0)$ and let $d_S(\cdot,\cdot)$ be a metric of $T(S_0)$ defined by the length spectrums of Riemann surfaces. The author showed in a previous paper that $d_T$ and $d_S$ are topologically equivalent and $d_S(\tau_1,\tau_2)\leq d_T(\tau_1,\tau_2) \leq 2d_S(\tau_1,\tau_2)+C(\tau_1)$, where $C(\tau_1)$ is a constant depending on $\tau_1$. In this paper, it is shown that $d_T$ and $d_S$ are not metrically equivalent; that is, there is no constant $C>0$ such that $d_S(\tau_1,\tau_2)\leq d_T(\tau_1,\tau_2)\leq Cd_S(\tau_1,\tau_2)$ for all $\tau_1 {\rm and} \tau_2 {\rm in} T(S_0)$.

Applications of minimal surface methods are made to obtain information about univalent harmonic mappings. In the case where the mapping arises as the Poisson integral of a step function, lower bounds for the number of zeros of the dilatation are obtained in terms of the geometry of the image.

In this article we characterize the univalent harmonic mappings from the exterior of the unit disk, $\Delta $, onto a simply connected domain $\Omega $ containing infinity and which are solutions of the system of elliptic partial differential equations $\overline{{{f}_{{\bar{z}}}}\left( Z \right)}=a\left( z \right){{f}_{z}}\left( z \right)$ where the second dilatation function $a\left( z \right)$ is a finite Blaschke product. At the end of this article, we apply our results to nonparametric minimal surfaces having the property that the image of its Gauss map is the upper half-sphere covered once or twice.