Carathéodory's theorem (conformal mapping)

Carathéodory's theorem (conformal mapping)

:"See also Carathéodory's theorem for other meanings."

In mathematics, Carathéodory's theorem in complex analysis states that if "U" is a simply connected open subset of the complex plane C, whose boundary is a Jordan curve Γ then the Riemann map

:"f": "U" → "D"

from "U" to the unit disk "D" extends continuously to the boundary, giving a homeomorphism

:"F" : Γ → "S"1"

from "Γ" to the unit circle "S1".

Such a region is called a "Jordan domain". Equivalently, this theorem states that for such sets "U" there is a homeomorphism

"F" : cl("U") → cl("D")

from the closure of "U" to the closed unit disk "cl(D)" whose restriction to the interior is a Riemann map, i.e. it is a bijective holomorphic conformal map.

Another standard formulation of Carathéodory's theorem states that for any pair of simply connected open sets "U" and "V" bounded by Jordan curves Γ1 and Γ2, a conformal map

:"f" : "U"→ "V"

extends to a homeomorphism

:"F": Γ1 → Γ2".

This version can be derived from the one stated above by composing the inverse of one Riemann map with the other.

Context

Intuitively, Carathéodory's theorem says that compared to general simply connected open sets in the complex plane C, those bounded by Jordan curves are particularly well-behaved.

Carathéodory's theorem is a basic result in the study of "boundary behavior of conformal maps", a classical part of complex analysis. In general it is very difficult to decide whether or not the Riemann map from an open set "U" to the unit disk "D" extends continuously to the boundary, and how and why it may fail to do so at certain points.

While having a Jordan curve boundary is "sufficient" for such an extension to exist, it is by no means "necessary". For example, the map

:"f"("z") = "z"2"

from the upper half-plane H to the open set "G" that is the complement of the positive real axis is holomorphic and conformal, and it extends to a continuous map from the real line R to the positive real axis R+; however, the set "G" is not bounded by a Jordan curve.


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