Mappings of finite distortion: Size of the branch set

We study the branch set of a mapping between subsets of {\mathbb{R}^{n}}, i.e., the set where a given mapping is not defining a local homeomorphism. We construct several sharp examples showing that the branch set or its image can have positive measure.

On nonhomeomorphic mappings with the inverse Poletsky inequality

As known, the modulus method is one of the most powerful research tools in the theory of mappings. Distortion of modulus has an important role in the study of conformal and quasiconformal mappings, mappings with bounded and finite distortion, mappings with finite length distortion, etc. In particular, an important fact is the lower distortion of the modulus under mappings. Such relations are called inverse Poletsky inequalities and are one of the main objects of our study. The use of these inequalities is fully justified by the fact that the inverse inequality of Poletsky is a direct (upper) inequality for the inverse mappings, if there exist. If the mapping has a bounded distortion, then the corresponding majorant in inverse Poletsky inequality is equal to the product of the maximum multiplicity of the mapping on its dilatation. For more general classes of mappings, a similar majorant is equal to the sum of the values of outer dilatations over all preimages of the fixed point. It the class of quasiconformal mappings there is no significance between the inverse and direct inequalities of Poletsky, since the upper distortion of the modulus implies the corresponding below distortion and vice versa. The situation significantly changes for mappings with unbounded characteristics, for which the corresponding fact does not hold. The most important case investigated in this paper refers to the situation when the mappings have an unbounded dilatation. The article investigates the local and boundary behavior of mappings with branching that satisfy the inverse inequality of Poletsky with some integrable majorant. It is proved that mappings of this type are logarithmically Holder continuous at each inner point of the domain. Note that the Holder continuity is slightly weaker than the classical Holder continuity, which holds for quasiconformal mappings. Simple examples show that mappings of finite distortion are not Lipschitz continuous even under bounded dilatation. Another subject of research of the article is boundary behavior of mappings. In particular, a continuous extension of the mappings with the inverse Poletsky inequality is obtained. In addition, we obtained the conditions under which the families of these mappings are equicontinuous inside and at the boundary of the domain. Several cases are considered: when the preimage of a fixed continuum under mappings is separated from the boundary, and when the mappings satisfy normalization conditions. The text contains a significant number of examples that demonstrate the novelty and content of the results. In particular, examples of mappings with branching that satisfy the inverse Poletsky inequality, have unbounded characteristics, and for which the statements of the basic theorems are satisfied, are given.

UNIQUENESS THEOREMS FOR MAPPINGS OF FINITE DISTORTION

In this paper we prove uniqueness theorems for mappings $F\in W_{\text{loc}}^{1,n}(\mathbb{B}^{n};\mathbb{R}^{n})$ of finite distortion $1\leq K(x)=\Vert \mathit{DF}(x)\Vert ^{n}/J_{F}(x)$ satisfying some integrability conditions. These types of theorems fundamentally state that if a mapping defined in $\mathbb{B}^{n}$ has the same boundary limit $a$ on a ‘relatively large’ set $E\subset \unicode[STIX]{x2202}\mathbb{B}^{n}$, then the mapping is constant. Here the size of the set $E$ is measured in terms of its $p$-capacity or equivalently its Hausdorff dimension.