Quasiconformal deformations preserving Hilbert's norm and their applications

Abstract

This paper focuses on estimating the Taylor coefficients for Hilbert spaces of holomorphic functions on the disk using intrinsic features of univalent functions and of Teichmuller spaces. Estimating these coefficients has a long history but still remains an important problem in many geometric and physical applications of complex analysis. We construct quasiconformal deformations of holomorphic functions preserving their Hilbert norm. Such deformations play a crucial role in this subject. Among their applications, a rather complete solution of an old Hummel-Scheinberg-Zalcman problem is obtained.