Carathéodory's theorem for both complementary domains of a Jordan curve #
A Jordan curve C ⊆ ℂ has exactly two complementary components: its inside filledHull C \ C
and its outside (filledHull C)ᶜ. This file shows that the inside is a conformal image of the open
unit disc and the outside a conformal image of the exterior (closedBall 0 1)ᶜ of the closed unit
disc, and that these maps extend to homeomorphisms of the closed disc onto filledHull C, the
closure of the inside, and of the closed exterior (ball 0 1)ᶜ onto (filledHull C \ C)ᶜ, the
closure of the outside, the unit circle going onto C in both cases.
- For the inside, the closed unit disc is homeomorphic to
filledHull C, the closure of the inside, by a map that is holomorphic on the open disc and sends its centre to any prescribed point of the inside. This is Carathéodory's theorem for the Jordan domainfilledHull C \ C, and in particular the closed-disc form of the Schoenflies theorem. - For the outside, the closed exterior
(ball 0 1)ᶜof the unit disc is homeomorphic to(filledHull C \ C)ᶜ, the closure of the outside, by a map that is holomorphic off the closed disc and tends to infinity at infinity. Inverting the outside about a pointpof the inside,z ↦ (z - p)⁻¹, and adding0, the image of infinity, gives a bounded Jordan domain bounded by the inverted curve (TauCeti.IsJordanCurve.isJordanDomain_insert_zero_image_inv_sub_compl_filledHull); the exterior map is read back from its Riemann map normalized at0.
Main results #
TauCeti.IsJordanCurve.exists_homeomorph_closedBall_filledHull— the inside of a Jordan curve is the image of the disc under a holomorphic bijection that extends to a homeomorphism of the closed disc ontofilledHull C, carrying the circle ontoC.TauCeti.IsJordanCurve.exists_homeomorph_compl_ball_compl_filledHull_sdiff— the outside of a Jordan curve is the image of the exterior of the disc under a holomorphic bijection that tends to infinity at infinity and extends to a homeomorphism of the closed exterior onto the complement of the inside, carrying the circle ontoC.
References #
- C. Carathéodory, Über die gegenseitige Beziehung der Ränder bei der konformen Abbildung, Math. Ann. 73 (1913).
- Ch. Pommerenke, Boundary Behaviour of Conformal Maps, Springer, 1992, Theorem 2.6.
The inside #
Carathéodory's theorem for the inside of a Jordan curve. For a Jordan curve C ⊆ ℂ and a
point p of its inside filledHull C \ C, there is a map g, holomorphic on the open unit disc
with g 0 = p, carrying the disc bijectively onto the inside and the unit circle bijectively onto
C, which restricts to a homeomorphism of the closed disc onto filledHull C.
The outside #
Carathéodory's theorem for the outside of a Jordan curve. For a Jordan curve C ⊆ ℂ there
is a map h, holomorphic off the closed unit disc and tending to infinity at infinity, carrying the
exterior of the closed disc bijectively onto the outside (filledHull C)ᶜ and the unit circle
bijectively onto C, which restricts to a homeomorphism of the closed exterior (ball 0 1)ᶜ onto
the complement of the inside, the closure of the outside
(TauCeti.IsJordanCurve.closure_compl_filledHull).