77 research outputs found
Entire functions with Julia sets of positive measure
Let f be a transcendental entire function for which the set of critical and
asymptotic values is bounded. The Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors theorem implies that
if the set of all z for which |f(z)|>R has N components for some R>0, then the
order of f is at least N/2. More precisely, we have log log M(r,f) > (N/2) log
r - O(1), where M(r,f) denotes the maximum modulus of f. We show that if f does
not grow much faster than this, then the escaping set and the Julia set of f
have positive Lebesgue measure. However, as soon as the order of f exceeds N/2,
this need not be true. The proof requires a sharpened form of an estimate of
Tsuji related to the Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors theorem.Comment: 17 page
Analytic functions satisfying Holder conditions on the boundary
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23936/1/0000183.pd
Modular Equations and Distortion Functions
Modular equations occur in number theory, but it is less known that such
equations also occur in the study of deformation properties of quasiconformal
mappings. The authors study two important plane quasiconformal distortion
functions, obtaining monotonicity and convexity properties, and finding sharp
bounds for them. Applications are provided that relate to the quasiconformal
Schwarz Lemma and to Schottky's Theorem. These results also yield new bounds
for singular values of complete elliptic integrals.Comment: 23 page
Can one see the fundamental frequency of a drum?
We establish two-sided estimates for the fundamental frequency (the lowest
eigenvalue) of the Laplacian in an open subset G of R^n with the Dirichlet
boundary condition. This is done in terms of the interior capacitary radius of
G which is defined as the maximal possible radius of a ball B which has a
negligible intersection with the complement of G. Here negligibility of a
subset F in B means that the Wiener capacity of F does not exceed gamma times
the capacity of B, where gamma is an arbitrarily fixed constant between 0 and
1. We provide explicit values of constants in the two-sided estimates.Comment: 18 pages, some misprints correcte
Meromorphic traveling wave solutions of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation
We look for singlevalued solutions of the squared modulus M of the traveling
wave reduction of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. Using
Clunie's lemma, we first prove that any meromorphic solution M is necessarily
elliptic or degenerate elliptic. We then give the two canonical decompositions
of the new elliptic solution recently obtained by the subequation method.Comment: 14 pages, no figure, to appear, Acta Applicandae Mathematica
Accuracy and Stability of Computing High-Order Derivatives of Analytic Functions by Cauchy Integrals
High-order derivatives of analytic functions are expressible as Cauchy
integrals over circular contours, which can very effectively be approximated,
e.g., by trapezoidal sums. Whereas analytically each radius r up to the radius
of convergence is equal, numerical stability strongly depends on r. We give a
comprehensive study of this effect; in particular we show that there is a
unique radius that minimizes the loss of accuracy caused by round-off errors.
For large classes of functions, though not for all, this radius actually gives
about full accuracy; a remarkable fact that we explain by the theory of Hardy
spaces, by the Wiman-Valiron and Levin-Pfluger theory of entire functions, and
by the saddle-point method of asymptotic analysis. Many examples and
non-trivial applications are discussed in detail.Comment: Version 4 has some references and a discussion of other quadrature
rules added; 57 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables; to appear in Found. Comput. Mat
Proof of a conjecture of Polya on the zeros of successive derivatives of real entire functions
We prove Polya's conjecture of 1943: For a real entire function of order
greater than 2, with finitely many non-real zeros, the number of non-real zeros
of the n-th derivative tends to infinity with n. We use the saddle point method
and potential theory, combined with the theory of analytic functions with
positive imaginary part in the upper half-plane.Comment: 26 page
Nonvanishing univalent functions
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