Spirals and the Asymptotic Teichmüller Space.pdf

Comput. Methods Funct. Theory (2014) 14:609–622 DOI 10.1007/s40315-014-0072-0 Spirals and the Asymptotic Teichmüller Space Hideki Miyachi Received: 15 September 2013 / Revised: 22 January 2014 / Accepted: 4 April 2014 / Published online: 3 June 2014 ? Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract In this paper, we will study the Bers density problem for the asymptotic Teichmüller space of the unit disk. We first observe that Gehring’s spiral domain is asymptotically equivalent to a Jordan domain in the closure of the universal Teich- müller space. We will also show that the asymptotic class of Flinn’s domain is not in the closure of the asymptotic Teichmüller space. This answers in the negative the Bers density problem for the asymptotic Teichmüller space. Keywords Jordan domains · Teichmüller space · Asymptotic Teichmüller space · Bers embedding · Quasiarcs Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) Primary 30F60; Secondary 30C20 · 32G15 · 30C62 · 30C65 1 The Bers Density Problem 1.1 Bers Density Problem In a celebrated paper [9], Gehring answered in the negative the Bers density prob- lem, which asked whether the universal Teichmüller space is dense in the set S of This paper is dedicated to the memory of Professor Frederick W. Gehring. Communicated by Gaven J. Martin. The author is partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), H. Miyachi (B) Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama 1-1, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan e-mail: miyachi@math.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp 123 610 H. Miyachi Schwarzian derivatives of univalent functions (cf. [5, §6]). In fact, he gave an explicit simply connected domainGeh, called Gehring’s spiral domain, as a counterexample to the Bers density problem. He also noticed that the Schwarzian derivative ?Geh for the domain Geh cannot be approximated by those of Jordan domains with respect to the hyperbolic supremum nor