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Nevanlinna's Criterion
In mathematics, Nevanlinna's criterion in complex analysis, proved in 1920 by the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna, characterizes holomorphic univalent functions on the unit disk which are starlike. Nevanlinna used this criterion to prove the Bieberbach conjecture for starlike univalent functions. Statement of criterion A univalent function ''h'' on the unit disk satisfying ''h''(0) = 0 and ''h(0) = 1 is starlike, i.e. has image invariant under multiplication by real numbers in ,1 if and only if z h^\prime(z)/h(z) has positive real part for , ''z'', < 1 and takes the value 1 at 0. Note that, by applying the result to ''a''•''h''(''rz''), the criterion applies on any disc , ''z'', < r with only the requirement that ''f''(0) = 0 and ''f(0) ≠ 0. Proof of criterion Let ''h''(''z'') be a starlike univalent function on , ''z'', < 1 with ''h''(0) = 0 and ''h(0) = 1. For ''t'' < 0, define : |
Mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics with the major subdisciplines of number theory, algebra, geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them. These objects consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicsentities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. A ''proof'' consists of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction from naturesome basic properties that are considered true starting points of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complex Analysis
Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates Function (mathematics), functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, number theory, analytic combinatorics, applied mathematics; as well as in physics, including the branches of hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and particularly quantum mechanics. By extension, use of complex analysis also has applications in engineering fields such as nuclear engineering, nuclear, aerospace engineering, aerospace, mechanical engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering. As a differentiable function of a complex variable is equal to its Taylor series (that is, it is Analyticity of holomorphic functions, analytic), complex analysis is particularly concerned with analytic functions of a complex variable (that is, holomorphic functions). History Complex analysis is one of the classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Nevanlinna
Rolf Herman Nevanlinna (né Neovius; 22 October 1895 – 28 May 1980) was a Finnish mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Background Nevanlinna was born Rolf Herman Neovius, becoming Nevanlinna in 1906 when his father changed the family name. The Neovius-Nevanlinna family contained many mathematicians: Edvard Engelbert Neovius (Rolf's grandfather) taught mathematics and topography at a military academy; Edvard Rudolf Neovius (Rolf's uncle) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki from 1883 to 1900; Lars Theodor Neovius-Nevanlinna (Rolf's uncle) was an author of mathematical textbooks; and Otto Wilhelm Neovius-Nevanlinna (Rolf's father) was a physicist, astronomer and mathematician. After Otto obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Helsinki, he studied at the Pulkovo Observatory with the German astronomer Herman Romberg, whose daughter, Margarete Henriette Louise Romberg, he married in 1892. Otto and Margarete then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holomorphic Function
In mathematics, a holomorphic function is a complex-valued function of one or more complex variables that is complex differentiable in a neighbourhood of each point in a domain in complex coordinate space . The existence of a complex derivative in a neighbourhood is a very strong condition: it implies that a holomorphic function is infinitely differentiable and locally equal to its own Taylor series (''analytic''). Holomorphic functions are the central objects of study in complex analysis. Though the term ''analytic function'' is often used interchangeably with "holomorphic function", the word "analytic" is defined in a broader sense to denote any function (real, complex, or of more general type) that can be written as a convergent power series in a neighbourhood of each point in its domain. That all holomorphic functions are complex analytic functions, and vice versa, is a major theorem in complex analysis. Holomorphic functions are also sometimes referred to as ''regular fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Univalent Functions
In mathematics, in the branch of complex analysis, a holomorphic function on an open subset of the complex plane is called univalent if it is injective. Examples The function f \colon z \mapsto 2z + z^2 is univalent in the open unit disc, as f(z) = f(w) implies that f(z) - f(w) = (z-w)(z+w+2) = 0. As the second factor is non-zero in the open unit disc, f must be injective. Basic properties One can prove that if G and \Omega are two open connected sets in the complex plane, and :f: G \to \Omega is a univalent function such that f(G) = \Omega (that is, f is surjective), then the derivative of f is never zero, f is invertible, and its inverse f^ is also holomorphic. More, one has by the chain rule :(f^)'(f(z)) = \frac for all z in G. Comparison with real functions For real analytic functions, unlike for complex analytic (that is, holomorphic) functions, these statements fail to hold. For example, consider the function :f: (-1, 1) \to (-1, 1) \, given by ''ƒ''( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unit Disk
In mathematics, the open unit disk (or disc) around ''P'' (where ''P'' is a given point in the plane), is the set of points whose distance from ''P'' is less than 1: :D_1(P) = \.\, The closed unit disk around ''P'' is the set of points whose distance from ''P'' is less than or equal to one: :\bar D_1(P)=\.\, Unit disks are special cases of disks and unit balls; as such, they contain the interior of the unit circle and, in the case of the closed unit disk, the unit circle itself. Without further specifications, the term ''unit disk'' is used for the open unit disk about the origin, D_1(0), with respect to the standard Euclidean metric. It is the interior of a circle of radius 1, centered at the origin. This set can be identified with the set of all complex numbers of absolute value less than one. When viewed as a subset of the complex plane (C), the unit disk is often denoted \mathbb. The open unit disk, the plane, and the upper half-plane The function :f(z)=\frac is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Domain
In geometry, a set S in the Euclidean space \R^n is called a star domain (or star-convex set, star-shaped set or radially convex set) if there exists an s_0 \in S such that for all s \in S, the line segment from s_0 to s lies in S. This definition is immediately generalizable to any real, or complex, vector space. Intuitively, if one thinks of S as a region surrounded by a wall, S is a star domain if one can find a vantage point s_0 in S from which any point s in S is within line-of-sight. A similar, but distinct, concept is that of a radial set. Definition Given two points x and y in a vector space X (such as Euclidean space \R^n), the convex hull of \ is called the and it is denoted by \left , y\right~:=~ \left\ ~=~ x + (y - x) , 1 where z , 1:= \ for every vector z. A subset S of a vector space X is said to be s_0 \in S if for every s \in S, the closed interval \left _0, s\right\subseteq S. A set S is and is called a if there exists some point s_0 \in S such that S i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bieberbach Conjecture
In complex analysis, de Branges's theorem, or the Bieberbach conjecture, is a theorem that gives a necessary condition on a holomorphic function in order for it to map the open unit disk of the complex plane injectively to the complex plane. It was posed by and finally proven by . The statement concerns the Taylor coefficients a_n of a univalent function, i.e. a one-to-one holomorphic function that maps the unit disk into the complex plane, normalized as is always possible so that a_0=0 and a_1=1. That is, we consider a function defined on the open unit disk which is holomorphic and injective ('' univalent'') with Taylor series of the form :f(z)=z+\sum_ a_n z^n. Such functions are called ''schlicht''. The theorem then states that : , a_n, \leq n \quad \textn\geq 2. The Koebe function (see below) is a function in which a_n=n for all n, and it is schlicht, so we cannot find a stricter limit on the absolute value of the nth coefficient. Schlicht functions The normalizations : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koenigs Function
In mathematics, the Koenigs function is a function arising in complex analysis and dynamical systems. Introduced in 1884 by the French mathematician Gabriel Koenigs, it gives a canonical representation as dilations of a univalent holomorphic mapping, or a semigroup of mappings, of the unit disk in the complex numbers into itself. Existence and uniqueness of Koenigs function Let ''D'' be the unit disk in the complex numbers. Let be a holomorphic function mapping ''D'' into itself, fixing the point 0, with not identically 0 and not an automorphism of ''D'', i.e. a Möbius transformation defined by a matrix in SU(1,1). By the Denjoy-Wolff theorem, leaves invariant each disk , ''z'' , < ''r'' and the iterates of converge uniformly on compacta to 0: in fact for 0 < < 1, : for , ''z'' , ≤ ''r'' with ''M''(''r'' ) < 1. Moreover '(0) = with 0 < , , < 1. proved that there is a unique holomorphic function ''h'' defined on ''D'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwarz Lemma
In mathematics, the Schwarz lemma, named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz, is a result in complex analysis about holomorphic functions from the open unit disk to itself. The lemma is less celebrated than deeper theorems, such as the Riemann mapping theorem, which it helps to prove. It is, however, one of the simplest results capturing the rigidity of holomorphic functions. Statement Let \mathbf = \ be the open unit disk in the complex plane \mathbb centered at the origin, and let f : \mathbf\rightarrow \mathbb be a holomorphic map such that f(0) = 0 and , f(z), \leq 1 on \mathbf. Then , f(z), \leq , z, for all z \in \mathbf, and , f'(0), \leq 1. Moreover, if , f(z), = , z, for some non-zero z or , f'(0), = 1, then f(z) = az for some a \in \mathbb with , a, = 1.Theorem 5.34 in Proof The proof is a straightforward application of the maximum modulus principle on the function :g(z) = \begin \frac\, & \mbox z \neq 0 \\ f'(0) & \mbox z = 0, \end which is holomorphic on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmonic Function
In mathematics, mathematical physics and the theory of stochastic processes, a harmonic function is a twice continuously differentiable function f: U \to \mathbb R, where is an open subset of that satisfies Laplace's equation, that is, : \frac + \frac + \cdots + \frac = 0 everywhere on . This is usually written as : \nabla^2 f = 0 or :\Delta f = 0 Etymology of the term "harmonic" The descriptor "harmonic" in the name harmonic function originates from a point on a taut string which is undergoing harmonic motion. The solution to the differential equation for this type of motion can be written in terms of sines and cosines, functions which are thus referred to as ''harmonics''. Fourier analysis involves expanding functions on the unit circle in terms of a series of these harmonics. Considering higher dimensional analogues of the harmonics on the unit ''n''-sphere, one arrives at the spherical harmonics. These functions satisfy Laplace's equation and over time "harmonic" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximum Principle
In the mathematical fields of partial differential equations and geometric analysis, the maximum principle is any of a collection of results and techniques of fundamental importance in the study of elliptic and parabolic differential equations. In the simplest case, consider a function of two variables such that :\frac+\frac=0. The weak maximum principle, in this setting, says that for any open precompact subset of the domain of , the maximum of on the closure of is achieved on the boundary of . The strong maximum principle says that, unless is a constant function, the maximum cannot also be achieved anywhere on itself. Such statements give a striking qualitative picture of solutions of the given differential equation. Such a qualitative picture can be extended to many kinds of differential equations. In many situations, one can also use such maximum principles to draw precise quantitative conclusions about solutions of differential equations, such as control over the size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
