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A Bloch-Landau Theorem for slice regular functions

Complex Variables 2014-04-14 v1

Abstract

The Bloch-Landau Theorem is one of the basic results in the geometric theory of holomorphic functions. It establishes that the image of the open unit disc D\mathbb{D} under a holomorphic function ff (such that f(0)=0f(0)=0 and f(0)=1f'(0)=1) always contains an open disc with radius larger than a universal constant. In this paper we prove a Bloch-Landau type Theorem for slice regular functions over the skew field H\mathbb{H} of quaternions. If ff is a regular function on the open unit ball BH\mathbb{B}\subset \mathbb{H}, then for every wBw \in \mathbb{B} we define the regular translation f~w\tilde f_w of ff. The peculiarities of the non commutative setting lead to the following statement: there exists a universal open set contained in the image of B\mathbb{B} through some regular translation f~w\tilde f_w of any slice regular function f:BHf: \mathbb{B} \to \mathbb{H} (such that f(0)=0f(0)=0 and Cf(0)=1\partial_C f(0)=1). For technical reasons, we introduce a new norm on the space of regular functions on open balls centred at the origin, equivalent to the uniform norm, and we investigate its properties.

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@article{arxiv.1404.3117,
  title  = {A Bloch-Landau Theorem for slice regular functions},
  author = {Chiara Della Rocchetta and Graziano Gentili and Giulia Sarfatti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.3117},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages

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