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Length functions of lemniscates

Olga Kuznetsova, Vladimir Tkachev

math.CVarXiv:math/0306327

Abstract

We study metric and analytic properties of generalized lemniscates Et(f)=z:ln|f(z)|=t, where f is an analytic function. Our main result states that the length function |Et(f)| is a bilateral Laplace transform of a certain positive measure. In particular, the function ln|Et(f)| is convex on any interval free of critical points of ln|f|. As another application we deduce explicit formulas of the length function in some special cases.

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