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Quasiconformality and hyperbolic skew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2020

COLLEEN ACKERMANN
Affiliation:
Montgomery College, Rockville Campus, 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD20850, U.S.A. e-mail: colleen.ackermann@montgomerycollege.edu
ALASTAIR FLETCHER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL60115-2888, U.S.A. e-mail: fletcher@math.niu.edu

Abstract

We prove that if $f:\mathbb{B}^n \to \mathbb{B}^n$ , for n ≥ 2, is a homeomorphism with bounded skew over all equilateral hyperbolic triangles, then f is in fact quasiconformal. Conversely, we show that if $f:\mathbb{B}^n \to \mathbb{B}^n$ is quasiconformal then f is η-quasisymmetric in the hyperbolic metric, where η depends only on n and K. We obtain the same result for hyperbolic n-manifolds. Analogous results in $\mathbb{R}^n$ , and metric spaces that behave like $\mathbb{R}^n$ , are known, but as far as we are aware, these are the first such results in the hyperbolic setting, which is the natural metric to use on $\mathbb{B}^n$ .

Type
Research Article
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© Cambridge Philosophical Society 2020

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Footnotes

Supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation, #352034.

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