International Workshop on Harmonic Mappings and Hyperbolic Metrics, IIT Madras, India, 2009

MY LECTURES IN IWHMHM09

Antti Rasila
Helsinki University of Technology (to become Aalto University School of
Science and Technology in the beginning of 2010), Espoo, Finland;
Antti.Rasila@tkk.fi

My lectures will be concerned with the following topics:

1. Introduction to quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane.

2. Distortion results for quasiconformal, quasiregular and harmonic

mappings.

3. Lindelöf-type boundary behavior results for certain classes of func-

tions.

In the first lecture, an overview of the theory of quasiconformal map-

pings in the plane will be given. The focus is in the basic definitions and
properties such as the conformal modulus. This lecture is intended to
give preliminary information to the following ones.
Then, in the next lecture we will deal with distortion results for the
above classes of functions. The main topic here is the Schwarz lemma and
its various versions. The connection between multiplicity of the function
at a given point, and the distortion will also be discussed.
Finally, we will study some generalizations of the so-called Lindelöf
theorem for other classes of mappings. In its classical form, this result
gives a connection between the sequential and non-tangential limits of a
bounded analytic function. In particular, the connection between mul-
tiplicities of the zeros and boundary behavior of bounded harmonic and
quasiregular mappings will be discussed.
MAIN REFERENCES
1. D. Bshouty, W. Hengartner, “Univalent harmonic mappings in the
plane,” in: Handbook of complex analysis: geometric function theory
(Edited by Kühnau), Vol. 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 479–506.
2. P. Duren, Harmonic Mappings in the Plane, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge (2004).
3. O. Lehto, K.I. Virtanen, Quasiconformal mappings in the plane,
Springer, Berlin (1973).
4. S. Ponnusamy, A. Rasila, “On zeros and boundary behavior of bounded
harmonic functions,” Analysis (Munich), Forthcoming, (2009).
5. A. Rasila, “Multiplicity and boundary behavior of quasiregular maps,”
Math. Z., 250, No. 3, 611–640 (2005).