Abstract
In this paper, we establish some Schwarz type lemmas for mappings \(\Phi \) satisfying the inhomogeneous biharmonic Dirichlet problem \( \Delta (\Delta (\Phi )) = g\) in \({\mathbb D}\), \(\Phi =f\) on \({\mathbb T}\) and \(\partial _n \Phi =h\) on \({\mathbb T}\), where g is a continuous function on \(\overline{{\mathbb D}}\), f, h are continuous functions on \({\mathbb T}\), where \({\mathbb D}\) is the unit disc of the complex plane \({\mathbb C}\) and \({\mathbb T}=\partial {\mathbb D}\) is the unit circle. To reach our aim, we start by investigating some properties of generalized harmonic functions called \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions. Finally, we prove a Landau-type theorem for this class of functions, when \(\alpha >0\).
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1 Preliminaries and main results
Let \(\mathbb {C}\) denote the complex plane and \(\mathbb {D}\) the open unit disk in \(\mathbb {C}\). Let \(\mathbb {T}=\partial \mathbb {D}\) be the boundary of \(\mathbb {D}\), and \(\overline{\mathbb {D}} = {\mathbb D}\cup \mathbb {T}\), the closure of \(\mathbb {D}\). Furthermore, we denote by \(\mathcal {C}^m(\Omega )\) the set of all complex-valued \(m-\)times continuously differentiable functions from \(\Omega \) into \(\mathbb {C}\), where \(\Omega \) stands for a domain of \(\mathbb {C}\) and \(m \in \mathbb {N}\). In particular, \(\mathcal {C}(\Omega ):= \mathcal {C}^0(\Omega )\) denotes the set of all continuous functions in \(\Omega \).
For a real \(2 \times 2\) matrix A, we use the matrix norm
and the matrix function
For \(z = x+iy \in {\mathbb C}\), the formal derivative of a complex-valued function \(\Phi = u+iv\) is given by
so that
where
We use
The main objective of this paper is to establish a Schwarz-type lemma for the solutions to the following inhomogeneous biharmonic Dirichlet problem (briefly, IBDP):
where
denotes the standard Laplacian and \(\partial _n\) denotes the differentiation in the inward normal direction, \(g \in \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) and the boundary data f and h \(\in \mathcal {C}(\mathbb {T})\).
We would like to mention that in [13, 14] the authors have considered similar inhomogeneous biharmonic equations but with different boundaries conditions.
In order to state our main results, we introduce some necessary terminologies. For \(z,w \in {\mathbb D}\), let
and
denote the biharmonic Green function and the harmonic Poisson kernel, respectively.
For \(\varphi \in L^1(\mathbb {T})\), we denote by \(P[\varphi ]\) the Poisson extension of \(\varphi \), defined on \({\mathbb D}\) by
Riesz representation of (super-)biharmonic functions started with Abkar and Hedenmalm [2]. By [26, Theorem 1.1], we see that all solutions of IBDP (1.1) are given by
where
where \(dA(\omega )\) denotes the Lebesgue area measure in \({\mathbb D}\). Here the kernels \(H_0\) and \(F_0\) are given by
Thus, the solutions of the equation (1.1) are given by
Obviously \(P[f+h]\) is a bounded harmonic function, and Heinz [19] proved the Schwarz lemma for planar harmonic functions: if \(\Phi \) is a harmonic mapping from \({\mathbb D}\) into itself with \(\Phi (0) = 0\), then for \(z \in {\mathbb D}\),
Hethcote [20] and Pavlović [34, Theorem 3.6.1] improved Heinz’s result, by removing the assumption \(\Phi (0)=0\), and proved the following.
Theorem A
Let \(\Phi :{\mathbb D}\rightarrow {\mathbb D}\) be a harmonic function from the unit disc to itself, then
A higher dimensional version for harmonic functions is proved in [21].
We remark that \(K_2[f]\) is a bounded \(T_2\)-harmonic which is a special type of biharmonic functions. So naturally our first aim is to study the class of \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions [31]. These functions can be seen as generalized harmonic functions as \(T_0\)-harmonic functions coincide with classical harmonic functions. Other variants of generalized (or weighted) harmonic functions and their properties can be found in [32, 33].
First, let us recall the definition of \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions.
Definition 1
[31] Let \(\alpha \in {\mathbb R}\), and let \(f\in \mathcal {C}^2({\mathbb D})\). We say that f is \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic if f satisfies
where the \(T_\alpha \)-Laplacian operator is defined by
with the weighted Laplacian operator \(L_\alpha \) is defined by
Remark 1.1
Let f be a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function.
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(1)
If \(\alpha =0\), then f is harmonic.
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(2)
If \(\alpha =2n\), then f is \((n+1)\)-harmonic, where \(n\in {\mathbb N}\), see [1, 5, 31, 32].
The homogeneous expansion of \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions is giving by
Theorem B
[31] Let \(\alpha \in {\mathbb R}\) and \(f\in \mathcal {C}^2({\mathbb D})\). Then f is \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic if and only if it has a series expansion of the form
for some sequence \(\{c_k\}\) of complex numbers satisfying \(\limsup _{|k|\rightarrow \infty } |c_k|^{\frac{1}{|k|}}\le 1,\) where F is the Gauss hypergeometric function.
For \(\alpha >-1\), a Poisson type integral representation for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic mappings is provided by the following theorem.
Theorem C
([31] Theorem 3.3) Let \(\alpha >-1\) and u be a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic in \({\mathbb D}\). Assume that \(\displaystyle \lim _{r\rightarrow 1}u_r=u^*\) in \(\mathcal {D}'({\mathbb T})\). Then u has a form of a Poisson type integral
The integral is understood in the sense of distribution theory and
The factor of normalization \(c_\alpha \) is chosen in order to ensure that the integral means
satisfies
Moreover, the function \(M_\alpha \) is increasing on [0, 1), see [31, Theorem 3.1].
It is well known that the Schwarz lemma is one of the most influential results in many branches of mathematical research for more than a hundred years. We refer the reader to [6, 13, 22, 29, 30] for generalizations and applications of this lemma.
Define
where
\(U_\alpha \) is a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function on \({\mathbb D}\) with values in \((-1,1)\) such that \(U_\alpha (0)=0\).
First, we establish a Heniz-Hethcote theorem for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions.
Theorem 1
Let \(\alpha >-1\) and \(u:{\mathbb D}\longrightarrow {\mathbb D}\) be a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function, then
for all \(z\in {\mathbb D}\), where \(U_\alpha \) is the function defined in (1.4).
In particular, for \(T_2\)-harmonic functions, we obtain
Corollary 1.1
Let \(u:{\mathbb D}\longrightarrow {\mathbb D}\) be a \(T_2\)-harmonic function, then
Next, we prove a sharp estimate of \(D_u(0)\), where u is a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function.
Theorem 2
Let \(\alpha >-1\) and \(u:{\mathbb D}\longrightarrow {\mathbb D}\) be a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function, then
The inequality (1.5) is sharp and \(U_\alpha \) is an extremal function, see (1.4).
Let \(\mathcal {A}({\mathbb D})\) the set of all holomorphic functions \(\Phi \) in \({\mathbb D}\) satisfying the standard normalization: \(\Phi (0) = \Phi '(0)-1 = 0\). Landau [23] showed that there is a constant \(r > 0\), independent of elements in \(\mathcal {A}({\mathbb D})\), such that \(\Phi ({\mathbb D})\) contains a disk of radius r. Later, Landau’s theorem has become an important tool in geometric function theory. Indeed, many authors considered Landau type theorems for harmonic functions i.e., \(\alpha =0\) (cf. [7,8,9,10, 12, 28]), for biharmonic functions, \(\alpha =2\) (cf. [1, 27]) and for polyharmonic functions \(\alpha =2(n-1)\) (see [4, 11]), and in [12], the authors considered the case \(\alpha \in (-1,0)\).
Naturally, our next aim is to establish a Landau type theorem for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions, for \(\alpha >0\).
Theorem 3
Let \(\alpha >0\), and \(u\in \mathcal {C}^2({\mathbb D})\) be a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function satisfying \(u(0)=J_u(0)-1=0\) and \( \sup _{z\in {\mathbb D}}|u(z)|\le M\), where \(M>0\) and \(J_u\) is the Jacobian of u. Let \(n\ge 1\) be an integer such that \(n-1<\frac{\alpha }{2}\le n.\) Then u is univalent on \(D_{r_\alpha }\), where \(r_\alpha \) satisfies the following equation
Moreover, \(u({\mathbb D}_{r_\alpha })\) contains an univalent disk \(D_{R_\alpha }\) with
where
with \(\displaystyle a_\alpha =\frac{\Gamma (\frac{\alpha }{2}+1)}{\Gamma (\alpha +1)}\).
Remark 1.2
In particular, for \(\alpha =2\), we obtain
Now we are in the position to prove some results related to the Dirichlet problem (1.1).
Theorem 4
Let \(g\in \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\), \(f, h \in \mathcal {C}(\mathbb {T})\) and suppose that \(\Phi \in \mathcal {C}^4({\mathbb D}) \cap \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) satisfies (1.1). Then for \(z \in {\mathbb D}\),
where \(\Vert f \Vert _\infty = \sup _{\zeta \in \mathbb {T}}|f(\zeta )|\), \(\Vert f+h \Vert _\infty = \sup _{\zeta \in \mathbb {T}}|f(\zeta )+h(\zeta )|\) and \(\Vert g \Vert _\infty = \sup _{\zeta \in \mathbb {D}}|g(\zeta )|\).
Theorem 5
Let \(g\in \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\), f and \(h \in \mathcal {C} (\mathbb {T})\). Suppose that \(\Phi \in \mathcal {C}^4({\mathbb D})\) is satisfying (1.1). Then for all \(z\in {\mathbb D}\),
Moreover at \(z=0\), we have
The classical Schwarz lemma at the boundary is as follows.
Theorem D
Suppose \(f:{\mathbb D}\longrightarrow {\mathbb D}\) is a holomorphic function with \(f(0)=0\), and further, f is analytic at \(z=1\) with \(f(1)=1\). Then, the following two conditions hold:
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(a)
\(f'(1)\ge 1;\)
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(b)
\(f'(1)=1\) if and only if \(f(z)=z.\)
The previous theorem is known as the Schwarz lemma on the boundary, and its generalizations have important applications in geometric theory of functions (see, [18, 24, 35]). Among the recent papers devoted to this subject, for example, Burns and Krantz [6], Krantz [22], Liu and Tang [29] explored many versions of the Schwarz lemma at the boundary point of holomorphic functions, Dubinin also applied this latter for algebraic polynomials and rational functions (see [16, 17]). In the present paper, we refine the Schwarz type lemma at the boundary for \(\Phi \) satisfies (1.1) as an application of Theorem 4.
Theorem 6
Suppose that \(\Phi \in \mathcal {C}^4({\mathbb D})\cap \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) satisfies (1.1), where \(g\in \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) and f, \(h\in \mathcal {C}(\mathbb {T})\) such that \(\Vert f\Vert _\infty \le 1\), and \(\Vert f+h\Vert _\infty \le 1\). If \(\displaystyle \lim _{r\rightarrow 1} |\Phi (r\eta )|=1\) for \(\eta \in \mathbb {T}\), then
In particular if \(\Vert f+h\Vert _\infty =0\), then \( \liminf _{r\rightarrow 1}\frac{|\Phi (\eta )-\Phi (r\eta )|}{1-r}\ge 1, \) and this estimate is sharp.
For \(g\in \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) and \(h \in \mathcal {C}(\mathbb {T})\), let \(\mathcal {BF}_{g,h}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) denote the class of all complex-valued functions \(\Phi \in \mathcal {C}^4({\mathbb D})\cap \mathcal {C}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) satisfying (1.1) with the normalization \(\Phi (0) = J_\Phi (0) - 1 = 0\).
We establish the following Landau-type theorem for \(\Phi \in \mathcal {BF}_{g,h}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\). In particular, if \(g \equiv 0\), then \(\Phi \in \mathcal {BF}_{g,h}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) is biharmonic. In this sense, the following result is a generalization of [1, Theorem 1 and 2].
Theorem 7
Suppose that \(M_1>0\), \(M_2>0\) and \(M_3>0\) are constants, and suppose that \(\Phi \in \mathcal {BF}_{g,h}(\overline{{\mathbb D}})\) satisfies the following conditions:
Then \(\Phi \) is univalent in \({\mathbb D}_{r_0}\) and \(\Phi ({\mathbb D}_{r_0})\) contains a univalent disk \({\mathbb D}_{R_0}\),where \(r_0\) satisfies the following equation:
with
and
2 Preliminaries
Here we collect some preliminary facts used in the sequel. The Gauss hypergeometric function is defined by the power series
for \(a,b,c\in {\mathbb R}\), with \(c\not = 0,-1,-2,\ldots .,\) where \((a)_0=1\) and \((a)_n=a(a+1)\ldots (a+n-1)\) for \(n=1,2,\ldots \) are the Pochhammer symbols.
We list few properties, see for instance [3, Chapter 2]
The following lemma about the monotonicity of hypergeometric functions follows immediately from the properties (2.3) and (2.4).
Lemma 1
[31] Let \(c > 0\), \(a \le c\), \(b \le c\) and \(ab \le 0\) (\(ab \ge 0\)). Then the function is decreasing (increasing) on (0, 1).
The following results are useful to establish a Landau theorem for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions, when \(\alpha >0\).
Lemma 2
[25, Formula 5.2.2 (9) p. 697] for \(n\ge 1\) and \(|x|<1\)
As a direct application of Lemma 2, it yields
Lemma 3
For \(r\in (0,1)\), and \(n\ge 1\), define the sequence
Then,
In particular,
Proposition 2.1
Let \(n\ge 1\) and \(n-1<\frac{\alpha }{2}\le n\). Then, we have the following two estimates
for \(r\in [0,1)\).
Proof
The inequality (2.7) follows immediately from (2.6).
Now we prove the inequality (2.8). By assumption, we have
Clearly, for \(k\ge 0\) and all \(2\le j \le n \), we have
Thus
Therefore, by Lemma 2, it yields
\(\square \)
3 Schwarz and Landau type lemmas for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions
3.1 Schwarz type lemma for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions
The main purpose of this section is to prove a Schwarz type lemma for \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic functions.
Proof of Theorem 1
Let \(0\le r=|z|<1\). As u is a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function, then
where \(u^*\in L^\infty (\mathbb {T})\). Thus
\(\square \)
To compute \(U_2\), we need to evaluate the following integral.
Easy but tedious computations show that
Lemma 4
For \(0\le \theta <\pi \), and \(r\in [0,1)\), we have
and \(\displaystyle J(\pi )= \lim _{\theta \rightarrow \pi } J(\theta )= \pi (1+r^2).\)
Proof of Corollary 1.1
By Lemma 4, and using the fact that \( \displaystyle \arctan (\frac{1+r}{1-r})-\frac{\pi }{4}=\arctan r\), we have
\(\square \)
Proof of Theorem 2
Near 0, we have
Hence from Theorem 1 and (3.1), we get
Thus
To show that the last estimate is sharp. Let us consider the \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic mapping defined by
By [31, Theorem 1.1], we have
Hence
As
we conclude that
\(\square \)
3.2 Proof of Theorem 3
First, we need the following theorem which provides some estimates on the coefficients of \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic mappings.
Theorem E
[12] For \(\alpha >-1\), let \(u\in \mathcal {C}^2({\mathbb D})\) be a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic function with the series expansion of the form (1.3) and \(\sup _{z\in {\mathbb D}}|u(z)| \le M\), where \(M>0\). Then, for \(k\in \{1,2,\ldots \}\),
and
Therefore for \(k\ge 1\) and \(\alpha >-1\), using (2.1), we have
Thus if u is \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic such that \(|u(z)|\le M\), then by (3.2) it yields
Proof of Theorem 3
Let us compute \(u_z\) and \(u_{\overline{z}}\), for u is a \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic with \(\alpha >0\) and \(u(0)=c_0=0\). The power series expansion is provided by
and the series converges for \(\mathcal {C}^{\infty }\)-topology. Hence
and
where \(\omega =|z|^2\).
We have \(u_z(0)=c_1F\big (-\frac{\alpha }{2}, k-\frac{\alpha }{2};k+1;0\big )=c_1\), and similarly \(u_{\overline{z}}(0)=c_{-1}\). Thus combining (3.5) and (3.6), we obtain
By (2.4) and (2.3), we see that
as the mapping is positive. We denote
In the sequel, we will estimate each of these expressions. \(\square \)
3.3 Estimate of \(E_\alpha (r)\)
Lemma 5
Let \(n\in {\mathbb N}\), \(n\ge 1\) and \(\frac{\alpha }{2}\in (n-1,n]\).
If \(n=1\), then
If \(n\ge 2\), then
Proof
A straightforward application of Lemma 1 implies that the monotonicity properties of depends on \( \alpha \big (\dfrac{\alpha }{2}-k\big )\). Therefore the function is decreasing on [0, 1) when \(\alpha \in (0,4]\) and \(k\ge 2\). Thus for \(\omega \in [0,1)\),
First, we estimate \(E_\alpha (r)\) for \(\alpha \in (0,4]\), then we will consider the case \(\alpha >4\).
Case 1. \(0<\alpha \le 4\)
The decreasing property of and (3.4) imply that
Subcase 1. \(0<\alpha \le 2\)
Remark that \(\Gamma (k+\frac{\alpha }{2}+2)\le \Gamma (k+3)\). Thus
Hence
Subcase 2. \(2<\alpha \le 4\)
By Proposition 2.1, for \(n=2\), it yields \(\displaystyle \sum _{k=2}^\infty \dfrac{\Gamma (k+\frac{\alpha }{2}+1)}{(k-1)!}r^k \le S_3(r)\). Therefore,
Case 2. \(2(n-1)< \alpha \le 2n\), \(n\ge 3\), that is, \(n-1=\lceil \frac{\alpha }{2}\rceil \).
According to the discussion at the beginning of the proof, we see that the function is increasing for \(2\le k\le n-1\), and, decreasing, for \(k\ge n\) on [0, 1).
Consequently, we split \(E_\alpha \) in two sums according to the monotonicity of . On one hand, we have
On the other hand, using the estimate of the coefficients (3.4), we have
Finally, by Proposition 2.1 (a), we conclude
We remark that this formula is still valid for \(n=2\). \(\square \)
3.4 Estimate of \(F_\alpha (r)\)
Lemma 6
Let \(n\in {\mathbb N}\), \(n\ge 1\) and \(\frac{\alpha }{2}\in (n-1,n]\).
If \(n=1\), then
If \(n \ge 2\), then
Proof
We start by investigating the monotonicity of . By Lemma 1, we infer that its monotonicity depends on
Therefore the function is increasing for \(0<\alpha \le 2\), and decreasing for \(2\le \alpha < 4\) on [0, 1).
Case 1. \(0<\alpha \le 2.\)
As the function is increasing, we have
According to (2.2), we obtain
Finally, using (3.2), (3.8) and (3.14), we have
Case 2. \(2<\alpha \le 4.\)
As the function is decreasing on [0, 1), and using (3.4), it follows
Using Proposition 2.1 (b) for \(n=2\), we deduce that \(\displaystyle F_\alpha (r)\le \frac{12M\alpha a_\alpha r^2}{\pi }\Bigg (1+ \frac{ 4r}{3(1-r)^3}\Bigg ). \)
Case 3. \( n-1< \frac{\alpha }{2}\le n\), \(n\ge 3\)
By Lemma 1, we deduce that the function is increasing for \(1\le k\le n-2\) and decreasing for \(k\ge n-1\). We split the summation in \(F_\alpha \) in two sums according to the monotonicity of .
Let us start the first sum. Using (3.14), we get
For the second sum, using Proposition 2.1 (b), we have
Finally
We remark that his inequality remains valid for \(n=2\). \(\square \)
3.5 Estimate of \(G_\alpha (r)\)
Lemma 7
Let \(n\in {\mathbb N}\), \(n\ge 1\) and \(\frac{\alpha }{2}\in (n-1,n]\).
If \(n=1\) or \(n\ge 3\) , then
If \(n=2\), then
Proof
By the mean value theorem, there exists \(c\in (0,r^2)\) such that
Lemma 1 shows that the function is increasing for \(0<\alpha \le 2\) or \(\alpha >4\), and decreasing for \(2<\alpha \le 4\).
Case 1. \(0<\alpha \le 2\) or \(\alpha >4\)
As the function is increasing on [0, 1), and using (3.14), we get
By (3.2), we have
Case 2. \(2<\alpha \le 4\)
As the function is decreasing on [0, 1) and using (3.4), we get
\(\square \)
Finally, combining (3.10–3.16), we conclude that
where \(\sigma _\alpha \) is defined in Theorem 3.
It is clear that \(\sigma _\alpha \) is strictly increasing on [0, 1) for all \(\alpha >0\). Applying Theorem 2 (1.5), we get
Therefore,
We will prove that u is univalent in \({\mathbb D}_{r_\alpha }\), where \(r_\alpha \) satisfies the following equation:
Indeed, let \(z_1,z_2\in {\mathbb D}_{r_\alpha }\) such that \(z_1\ne z_2\) and \([z_1,z_2]\) denote the line segment from \(z_1\) to \(z_2\), by using (3.17) and (3.18), we get
Thus \(u(z_1)\ne u(z_2)\). The univalence of u follows from the arbitrariness of \(z_1\) and \(z_2\). This implies that u is univalent in \({\mathbb D}_{r_\alpha }\). As the mapping \(\frac{\sigma _\alpha (|z|)}{|z|}\) is increasing, we deduce
For any \(\xi \in \partial {\mathbb D}_{r_\alpha }\), we have
Hence \(u({\mathbb D}_{r_\alpha })\) contains a univalent disk \({\mathbb D}_{R_\alpha }\) with \(R_\alpha \ge \frac{\sigma _\alpha (r_\alpha )r_\alpha }{2}.\)
4 Schwarz-type lemmas for solutions to inhomogeneous biharmonic equations
Proof of Theorem 4
The solution of (1.1) can be written in the following form
As \(z\longmapsto K_2[f](z) \) is \(T_2\)-harmonic function, then by Theorem 1, we have
Using the estimate (1.2) for the harmonic mapping \(P[f+h]\), we get
In addition, using [13, inequality 2.3], we obtain
Finally as \(\displaystyle K_2[f](0)=\frac{1}{2}P[f](0)\), then the inequality (1.8) follows directly from (4.1–4.3). \(\square \)
Proof of Theorem 5
The solution of (1.1) can be written in the following form
Therefore,
By Colonna [15], we have
It follows from [26, Lemma 2.5], that
since
In addition by [12, Theorem 1], we have
Therefore, combining (4.4–4.6), we obtain
\(\square \)
Proof of Theorem 6
Suppose that \(|z|=r\), it follows from Theorem 4 that
Divide by \(1-r\) and used the Hospital rule, we obtain
where \(\varphi (r)=\frac{2}{\pi }(r^2+1)\arctan r.\) Hence \(\liminf _{r\longrightarrow 1}\frac{|\Phi (\eta )-\Phi (r\eta )|}{1-r}\ge 1-\Vert f+h\Vert _\infty .\) \(\square \)
5 A Landau-type theorem for solutions to inhomogeneous biharmonic equations
First, let us recall the following result.
Theorem F
([11], Lemma 1) Suppose f is a harmonic mapping of \({\mathbb D}\) into \({\mathbb C}\) such that \(|f(z)|\le M\) for all \(z\in {\mathbb D}\) and \(f(z)=\sum _{n=0}^\infty a_n z^n+\sum _{n=1}^\infty \overline{b}_n \overline{z}^n.\)
Then \(|a_0|\le M\) and for all \(n\ge 1,\) \(|a_n|+|b_n|\le \frac{4M}{\pi }.\)
Proof of Theorem 7
The solution of (1.1) can be written in the following form
where
Since \(P[f+h]\) is harmonic in \({\mathbb D}\), we have \(P[f+h](z)=\sum _{n=0}^\infty a_n z^n+\sum _{n=1}^\infty \overline{b}_n \overline{z}^n.\) As \(|P[f+h](z)|\le M_2\) for all \(z\in {\mathbb D}\), by Theorem F, we have
Using the chain rule and by (5.1) and (5.2), we have
Since \(K_2\) is \(T_2\)-harmonic, then
Let us denote
Hence
and
By (3.3), we have \(2|c_0| \le M_1.\) On the other hand, as \(K_2^0(f)\) is a \(T_2\)-harmonic function with \(K_2^0(0)=0\), it yields
where \(\sigma _2\) is defined by \(\sigma _2(r)= \frac{4M_1r}{ \pi (1-r)^3}(r^2(1-r)+3),\) see Remark 1.2. Thus
Let
and
Then by [13, Inequality (3.6)], we have
Now, it follows from (5.3)–(5.5) that
where
Remark that not only \(\mu (|z|)\) is increasing but also \(\displaystyle \frac{\mu (|z|)}{|z|}\) is increasing with respect to |z| in [0, 1). By Theorem 5, we obtain that
yields \( \lambda ( D_\Phi (0))\ge \frac{1}{\frac{4}{\pi }M_1+\frac{2}{\pi }M_2+\frac{23}{48}M_3}.\) As in Theorem 3, we prove that \(\Phi \) is univalent in \({\mathbb D}_{r_0}\), where \(r_0\) satisfies \( (\frac{4}{\pi } M_1+\frac{2}{\pi }M_2+\frac{23}{48}M_3)\mu (r_0)=1, \) and \(\Phi ({\mathbb D}_{r_0})\) contains an univalent disk \({\mathbb D}_{R_0}\) with the radius \(R_0\) satisfying \(R_0\ge \frac{r_0}{\frac{8}{\pi } M_1+\frac{4}{\pi }M_2+\frac{23}{24}M_3}.\) \(\square \)
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Khalfallah, A., Haggui, F. & Mhamdi, M. Generalized harmonic functions and Schwarz lemma for biharmonic mappings. Monatsh Math 196, 823–849 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-021-01619-4
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Keywords
- Schwarz’s lemma
- Boundary Schwarz’s lemma
- Landau theorem
- Biharmonic equations
- \(T_\alpha \)-harmonic mappings