The Differential Equations Seminar presents...


Irina Mitrea -- University of Virginia

Tuesday, September 11th, 4:30pm

Kerchof 317

On the global regularity of conformal maps




Abstract : The Riemann mapping theorem, one of the most celebrated results in complex analysis, states that any bounded, connected and simply connected domain D in the plane can be conformally mapped onto the unit disk. It has long been understood that there are subtle connections between the smoothness of the conformal transformation near the boundary of the domain and the degree of regularity of the domain under discussion.

This talk addresses the issue of global regularity of the conformal map on Sobolev-Besov scales, in the case when the domain is allowed to have a Lipschitz graph-like boundary. The approach taken relies on tools from Harmonic Analysis and PDE's, in particular on boundary layer potentials and sharp estimates for the Dirichlet Laplacian with Besov data in Lipschitz domains.