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Three counterexamples for a question concerning Green's functions and circular symmetrization

Author(s): Alexander R. Pruss
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1755-1761.
MSC (1991): Primary 31A15
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Abstract: We construct domains $U$ in the plane such that if $G(re^{i\theta })$ is the Green's function of $U$ with pole at zero, while $\tilde G(r e^{i\theta })$ is the symmetric non-increasing rearrangement of $G(re^{i\theta })$ for each fixed $r$ and $G^{*}$ is the Green's function of the circular symmetrization $U^{*}$, again with pole at zero, then there are positive numbers $r$ and $\varepsilon $ such that

\begin{equation*}G^{*}(r e^{i\theta }) < \tilde G(r e^{i\theta }), \end{equation*}

whenever $0<|\pi -\theta |<\varepsilon $. One of our constructions will have $U$ simply connected. We also consider the case where the poles of the Green's functions do not lie at the origin. Our work provides a negative answer to a question of Hayman (1967).


References:

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Arne Beurling, Études sur un problème de majoration, Thèse pour le doctorat, Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala, 1933.

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W. K. Hayman, Research Problems in Function Theory, Athlone Press, London, 1967. MR 36:359

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Rolf Nevanlinna, Analytic Functions, Springer Verlag, New York, 1970. MR 43:5003


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Additional Information:

Alexander R. Pruss
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z2
Email: pruss@math.ubc.ca

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03196-6
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03196-6
Keywords: Green's functions, circular symmetrization
Received by editor(s): September 30, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 16, 1994
Additional Notes: The research was partially supported by Professor J. J. F. Fournier's NSERC Grant \#4822. This paper constitutes a portion of the author's doctoral dissertation.
Communicated by: Albert Baernstein II
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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