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Title
The harmonic and quasiconformal extension operators
Authors 1, 2, 3
Affiliations
- Institute of Mathematics, The Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
- Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558, Japan
- Chair of Applied Mathematics, The Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Abstract
Different aspects of the boundary value problem for quasiconformal mappings and Teichmüller spaces are expressed in a unified form by the use of the trace and extension operators. Moreover, some new results on harmonic and quasiconformal extensions are included.
Keywords
Douady-Earle extension, homeomorphic extension, harmonic extension, universal Teichmüller space, quasiconformal mappings, quasihomographies, Beurling-Ahlfors extension, quasiconformal extension, diffeomorphic extension, quasisymmetric automorphisms, Poisson integral, harmonic mappings, quasisymmetric functions
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