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In 1968, Krzyz conjectured that for non-vanishing holomorphic functions $f(z) = c_0 + c_1 z + \dots$ in the unit disk with $|f(z)| \leq 1$, we have the sharp bound $|c_n| \leq 2/e$ for all $n \geq 1$, with equality only for the function…

The Krzy\.z conjecture concerns the largest values of the Taylor coefficients of a non-vanishing analytic function bounded by one in modulus in the unit disk. It has been open since 1968 even though information on the structure of extremal…

The well-known Zalcman conjecture, which implies the Bieberbach conjecture, states that the coefficients of univalent functions $f(z) = z + \sum\limits_2^{\infty} a_n z^n$ on the unit disk satisfy $|a_n^2 - a_{2n-1}| \le (n-1)^2$ for all $n…

At the end of 1960's, Lawrence Zalcman posed a conjecture that the coefficients of univalent functions $f(z) = z + \sum\limits_2^\infty a_n z^n$ on the unit disk satisfy the sharp inequality $|a_n^2 - a_{2n-1}| \le (n-1)^2$, with equality…

Recently the author has presented a new approach to solving extremal problems of geometric function theory. It involves the Bers isomorphism theorem for Teichmuller spaces of punctured Riemann surfaces. We show here that this approach,…

We consider the family B-tilde of bounded nonvanishing analytic functions f(z) = a_0 + a_1 z + a_2 z^2 + ... in the unit disk. The coefficient problem had been extensively investigated, and it is known that |a_n| <= 2/e for n=1,2,3, and 4.…

We show, using the Kobayashi and Caratheodory metrics on special holomorphic disks in the universal Teichmuller space, that a wide class of holomorphic functionals on the space of univalent functions in the disk is maximized by the Koebe…

Let $M$\/ be a subharmonic function with Riesz measure $\mu_M$ on the unit disk $\mathbb D$ in the complex plane $\mathbb C$. Let $f$ be a nonzero holomorphic function on $\mathbb D$ such that $f$ vanishes on ${\sf Z}\subset \mathbb D$, and…

We define a distance function on the bordered punctured disk $0<|z|\le 1/e$ in the complex plane, which is comparable with the hyperbolic distance of the punctured unit disk $0<|z|<1.$ As an application, we will construct a distance…

Recently the author proved that the 1977 Hummel-Scheinberg-Zalcman conjecture on coefficients of nonvanishing $H^p$ functions is true for all $p = 2m, m \in \mathbb{N}$, i.e., for the Hilbertian Hardy spaces $H^{2m}$. As a consequence, this…

Let $f$ be a nonzero holomorphic function in the unit ball $\mathbb B$ of the $n$-dimensional complex Euclidean space $\mathbb C^n$ such that the function $f$ vanishes on the set ${\sf Z}\subset \mathbb B$ and satisfies the constraint…

Given a pseudoconvex domain D in C^N, N>1, we prove that there is a holomorphic function f on D such that the lengths of paths p: [0,1]--> D along which Re f is bounded above, with p(0) fixed, grow arbitrarily fast as p(1)--> bD. A…

Let $\phi$ be a real-valued smooth function on $\mathbf{C}$ satisfying $0 \le \Delta \phi \le M$ for some $M \ge 0$. We consider the space of all holomorphic functions which are square-integrable with respect to the measure $e^{-\phi(z)}…

Counterexamples show that many results in the geometric function theory of one complex variable are not applicable for several complex variables. In this paper, we obtain sharp bounds for the Zalcman functional for $n=3$ associated with the…

There have been, over the last 8 years, a number of far reaching extensions of the famous original F. and M. Riesz's uniqueness theorem that states that if a bounded analytic function in the unit disc of the complex plane $\Bbb C$ has the…

Let $\mathcal{S}$ denote the class of analytic and univalent ({\it i.e.}, one-to-one) functions $f(z)= z+\sum_{n=2}^{\infty}a_n z^n$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$. For $f\in \mathcal{S}$, Ma proposed the…

We prove that the sublevel set $\big\{z\in\mathbb D\colon k_{\mathbb D}\big(z,z_0\big)-k_{\mathbb D}\big(f(z),w_0\big)<\mu\big\}$, ${\mu\in\mathbb R}$, is geodesically convex with respect to the Poincar\'e distance $k_{\mathbb D}$ in the…

Let $\mathcal{S}$ denote the class of analytic and univalent ({\it i.e.}, one-to-one) functions $ f(z)= z+\sum_{n=2}^{\infty}a_n z^n$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$. For $f\in \mathcal{S}$, In 1999, Ma proposed the…

For functions $p(z) = 1 + \sum_{n=1}^\infty p_n z^n$ holomorphic in the unit disk, satisfying $ {\rm Re}\, p(z) > 0$, we generalize two inequalities proved by Livingston in 1969 and 1985, and simplify their proofs. One of our results states…

We discuss a general result of holomorphic extension of a real analytic function $f$ defined on the boundary $\partial D$ of a real analytic strictly convex subset $D\subset\subset \C^n$. We show that this follows from the hypothesis of…