Radii of covering disks for locally univalent harmonic mappings

Abstract

For a univalent smooth mapping $f$ of the unit disk \ID of complex plane onto the manifold f(\ID), let $d_f(z_0)$ be the radius of the largest univalent disk on the manifold f(\ID) centered at $f(z_0)$ ($|z_0|<1$). The main aim of the present article is to investigate how the radius $d_h(z_0)$ varies when the analytic function $h$ is replaced by a sense-preserving harmonic function $f=h+\overline{g}$. The main result includes sharp upper and lower bounds for the quotient $d_f(z_0)/d_h(z_0)$, especially, for a family of locally univalent $Q$-quasiconformal harmonic mappings $f=h+\overline{g}$ on $|z|<1$. In addition, estimate on the radius of the disk of convexity of functions belonging to certain linear invariant families of locally univalent $Q$-quasiconformal harmonic mappings of order $\alpha$ is obtained.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures; To appear in Monatshefte fuer Mathemati