Le problème de Painlevé consiste à trouver une caractérisation géométrique des sous-ensembles du plan complexe qui sont effaçables pour les fonctions holomorphes bornées. Ce problème d’analyse complexe a connu ces dernières années des avancées étonnantes, essentiellement grâce au dévelopement de techniques fines d’analyse réelle et de théorie de la mesure géométrique. Dans cet exposé, nous allons présenter et discuter une solution proposée par X. Tolsa en termes de courbure de Menger au problème...

Given a function $f\left(t\right)\ge 0$ on $ℝ$ with ${\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }\left(f\right(t)/(1+t^2\left)\right)dt\<\infty$ and $\left|f\right(t)-f(t^{\text{'}}\left)\right|\le l|t-t^{\text{'}}|$, a procedure is exhibited for obtaining on $ℂ$ a (finite) superharmonic majorant of the function$$F\left(z\right):\frac{1}{\pi }{\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }\frac{\left|𝔍z\right|}{|z-t{|}^2}f\left(t\right)dt-Al\left|𝔍z\right|,$$where $A$ is a certain (large) absolute constant. This leads to fairly constructive proofs of the two main multiplier theorems of Beurling and Malliavin. The principal tool used is a version of the following lemma going back almost surely to Beurling: suppose that $f\left(t\right)$, positive and bounded away from 0 on $ℝ$, is such that ${\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }\left(f\right(t)/(1+t^2)dt\<\infty$ and denote, for any constant $\alpha \>0$ and each $x\in ℝ$, the unique...

A technique is developed for constructing the solution of ${\Delta }^{2}u=F$ in $R=\left\{\right(x,y):|x|\<a,|y|\<b\}$, subject to boundary conditions $u=\phi$, $\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=\psi$ on $\partial R$. The problem is reduced to that of finding the orthogonal projection $Pw$ of $w$ in $L^2\left(R\right)$ onto the subspace $\mathbf{H}$ of square integrable functions harmonic in $\mathbf{R}$. This problem is solved by decomposition $\mathbf{H}$ into the closed direct (not orthogonal) sum of two subspaces ${\mathbf{H}}^{\left(1\right)},{\mathbf{H}}^{\left(2\right)}$ for which complete orthogonal bases are known. $P$ is expressed in terms of the projections $P^{\left(1\right)}$, $P^{\left(2\right)}$ of $L^2\left(R\right)$ onto ${\mathbf{H}}^{\left(1\right)}$, ${\mathbf{H}}^{\left(2\right)}$ respectively. The resulting construction...

We first prove that the convolution of a normalized right half-plane mapping with another subclass of normalized right half-plane mappings with the dilatation [...] −z(a+z)/(1+az) $-z(a+z)/(1+az)$ is CHD (convex in the horizontal direction) provided [...] a=1 $a=1$ or [...] −1≤a≤0 $-1\le a\le 0$ . Secondly, we give a simply method to prove the convolution of two special subclasses of harmonic univalent mappings in the right half-plane is CHD which was proved by Kumar et al. [1, Theorem 2.2]. In addition, we derive the convolution...

In this paper we extend recent work on the detection of inclusions using electrostatic measurements to the problem of crack detection in a two-dimensional object. As in the inclusion case our method is based on a factorization of the difference between two Neumann-Dirichlet operators. The factorization possible in the case of cracks is much simpler than that for inclusions and the analysis is greatly simplified. However, the directional information carried by the crack makes the practical implementation...

In this paper we extend recent work on the detection of inclusions using electrostatic measurements to the problem of crack detection in a two-dimensional object. As in the inclusion case our method is based on a factorization of the difference between two Neumann-Dirichlet operators. The factorization possible in the case of cracks is much simpler than that for inclusions and the analysis is greatly simplified. However, the directional information carried by the crack makes the practical...