The Effect of Planar Harmonic Mappings on the Lebesgue Measure of Sets
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| author | Geleta, Hunduma Legesse |
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| contents | We investigate the effect of planar univalent harmonic mappings on the Lebesgue measure of measurable sets in the complex plane. Motivated by Problem 3.25 of Koh and Kovalev (HQM2010), we establish sharp quantitative area distortion inequalities for disks and for arbitrary measurable sets under sense-preserving harmonic self-maps of the unit disk. Using the area formula and the canonical decomposition of harmonic mappings, we derive bounds in terms of the Jacobian and the dilatation, and we identify rigidity phenomena characterizing equality. In particular, we prove global area contraction for disks, star-shaped sets, and sufficiently small sets, and we refine the results using Hardy space methods to obtain sharp bounds with equality only for conformal automorphisms. Extremal affine and non-affine examples illustrate the sharpness of our estimates. Our results provide a complete, rigorous, and strengthened solution to Problem 3.25 and highlight several natural conjectures on global area contraction, extremal distortion, and rigidity for harmonic mappings. |
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| spellingShingle | The Effect of Planar Harmonic Mappings on the Lebesgue Measure of Sets Geleta, Hunduma Legesse Complex Variables We investigate the effect of planar univalent harmonic mappings on the Lebesgue measure of measurable sets in the complex plane. Motivated by Problem 3.25 of Koh and Kovalev (HQM2010), we establish sharp quantitative area distortion inequalities for disks and for arbitrary measurable sets under sense-preserving harmonic self-maps of the unit disk. Using the area formula and the canonical decomposition of harmonic mappings, we derive bounds in terms of the Jacobian and the dilatation, and we identify rigidity phenomena characterizing equality. In particular, we prove global area contraction for disks, star-shaped sets, and sufficiently small sets, and we refine the results using Hardy space methods to obtain sharp bounds with equality only for conformal automorphisms. Extremal affine and non-affine examples illustrate the sharpness of our estimates. Our results provide a complete, rigorous, and strengthened solution to Problem 3.25 and highlight several natural conjectures on global area contraction, extremal distortion, and rigidity for harmonic mappings. |
| title | The Effect of Planar Harmonic Mappings on the Lebesgue Measure of Sets |
| topic | Complex Variables |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14717 |