On a Problem Concerning Harmonic Measure.
Let a,b ∈ z: 0<|z|<1 and let S(a,b) be the class of all univalent functions f that map the unit disk into {a,bwith f(0)=0. We study the problem of maximizing |f’(0)| among all f ∈ S(a,b). Using the method of extremal metric we show that there exists a unique extremal function which maps onto a simply connnected domain bounded by the union of the closures of the critical trajectories of a certain quadratic differential. If a<0
We use Beurling estimates and Zdunik's theorem to prove that the support of a lamination of the circle corresponding to a connected polynomial Julia set has zero length, unless f is conjugate to a Chebyshev polynomial. Equivalently, except for the Chebyshev case, the biaccessible points in the connected polynomial Julia set have zero harmonic measure.
We show that if a Cantor set E as considered by Garnett in [G2] has positive Hausdorff h-measure for a non-decreasing function h satisfying ∫01 r−3 h(r)2 dr < ∞, then the analytic capacity of E is positive. Our tool will be the Menger three-point curvature and Melnikov’s identity relating it to the Cauchy kernel. We shall also prove some related more general results.