Sunday, 14 October 2012

cv.complex variables - Level set of a harmonic function

Let u be a nonconstant real-valued harmonic function defined in the open unit disk D. Suppose that GammasubsetD is a smooth connected curve such that u=0 on Gamma. Is there a universal upper bound for the length of Gamma?



Remark: by the Hayman-Wu theorem, the answer is yes if u is the real part of an injective holomorphic function; in fact, in this case there is a universal upper bound for the length of the entire level set in D. For general harmonic functions, level sets can have arbitrarily large length, e.g. Rezn.

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