HANDBOOK OF COMPLEX ANALYSIS GEOMETRIC FUNCTION THEORY This Page Intentionally Left Blank HANDBOOK OF COMPLEX ANALYSIS G F T EOMETRIC UNCTION HEORY Volume 2 Editedby R. KÜHNAU Martin-Luther-UniversitätHalle-Wittenberg Halle(Saale),Germany 2005 Amsterdam •Boston • London • NewYork •Oxford•Paris San Diego •San Francisco • Singapore •Sydney • Tokyo ELSEVIERB.V. ELSEVIERInc. ELSEVIERLtd ELSEVIERLtd SaraBurgerhartstraat25 525BStreet,Suite1900 TheBoulevard,LangfordLane 84TheobaldsRoad P.O.Box211,1000AEAmsterdam SanDiego,CA92101-4495 Kidlington,OxfordOX51GB LondonWC1X8RR TheNetherlands USA UK UK ©2005ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserved. 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PrintedinTheNetherlands Preface As is the case for Volume 1 of this Handbook, this is not a textbook but a collection of independent survey articles about new developments in Geometric Function Theory. Again,itwouldofcoursebeimpossibletocoveranextensivefieldlikethisonecompletely. Nevertheless,Idonotdoubtthatitspublicationwillhelptomakethistheoryinterestingto newpeopleandwillattractnewresearcherstosolvingitsproblems. I amgratefulto ProfessorEdgarReich forhiskindadvicein connectionwithsomeof thearticles.Imostgratefullyacknowledgethefriendlycooperationandexpertsupportof Dr.A.SevensterandMrs.AndyDeelenfromElsevier.Lastbutnotleast,Ihavetothank ZigmasKryžiusfromVTEXTypesettingservicefortheexcellentprinting. ReinerKühnau v This Page Intentionally Left Blank List of Contributors of Volume 1 Aksent’ev,L.A.,KazanStateUniversity,Kazan(Ch.7) Andrievskii,V.V.,KentStateUniversity,Kent,OH(Ch.15) Baernstein,A.II,WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis,MO(Ch.9) Gardiner,F.P.,BrooklynCollege(CUNY),NewYork,NY (Ch.14) Grinshpan,A.Z.,UniversityofSouthFlorida,Tampa,FL(Ch.10) Hamilton,D.H.,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,MD(Chs.4–6) Harvey,W.J.,King’sCollegeLondon,London(Ch.14) Hayman,W.K.,ImperialCollegeofScience,TechnologyandMedicine,London(Ch.1) Jenkins,J.A.,WashingtonUniversity,St.Louis,MO(Ch.13) MacGregor,T.H.,UniversityofAlbany,Albany,NY (Ch.12) Pommerenke,Ch.,TechnischeUniversitätBerlin,Berlin(Ch.2) Prokhorov,D.V.,SaratovStateUniversity,Saratov(Ch.8) Reich,E.,UniversityofMinnesota,Minneapolis,MN (Ch.3) Shabalin,P.L.,KazanStateUniversity,Kazan(Ch.7) Stephenson,K.,UniversityofTennessee,Knoxville,TN (Ch.11) Wilken,D.R.,UniversityofAlbany,Albany,NY (Ch.12) vii This Page Intentionally Left Blank List of Contributors AndreianCazacu,C.,UniversityofBucharest,Bucuresti,Romania(Ch.17) Bshouty,D.,DepartmentofMathematics,Technion,Haifa,Israel(Ch.10) Dittmar, B., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, Germany (Ch.16) Drasin,D.,PurdueUniversity,WestLafayette,IN(Ch.18) Gehring,F.W.,UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,MI (Ch.1) Gol’dberg,A.A.,Bar-IlanUniversity,RamatGan,Israel(Ch.18) Hengartner,W.,UniversitéLaval,Québec,Canada(Ch.10) Kirsch, S., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, Germany (Ch.6) Krushkal,S.L.,Bar-IlanUniversity,RamatGan,Israel(Chs.2,5,11) Kühnau, R., Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle an der Saale, Germany (Chs.3,4,13,15,19) Poggi-Corradini,P.,KansasStateUniversity,Manhattan,KS(Ch.18) Qiu,S.-L.,HangzhouDianziUniversity,Hangzhou,P.R.China(Ch.14) Schmieder,G.,UniversitätOldenburg,Oldenburg,Germany(Ch.8) Srebro,U.,Technion–IsraelInstituteofTechnology,Haifa,Israel(Ch.12) Suffridge,T.J.,UniversityofKentucky,Lexington,KY (Ch.7) Vuorinen,M.,UniversityofTurku,Turku,Finland(Ch.14) Wegmann,R.,Max-Planck-InstitutfürAstrophysik,Garching,Germany(Ch.9) Yakubov,E.,HolonAcademicInstituteofTechnology,Holon,Israel(Ch.12) ix