Crickets, zippers and the Bers universal Teichmüller space

Abstract

This paper contains a simple characterization of the conformal mappings <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> of the unit disk <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper U"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>U</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">U</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> whose Schwarzians lie in the closure of the Bers universal Teichmüller space. A second characterization is given and three examples are studied for the case where <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="f left-parenthesis upper U right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>U</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">f(U)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is the complement of a quasiarc.

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