On the existence of solutions of the Beltrami equations with conditions on inverse dilatations

We have found one of possible conditions under which the degenerate Beltrami equation has a continuous solution of the Sobolev class. This solution is H\"{o}lder continuous in the ''weak'' (logarithmic) sense with the exponent power $\alpha=1/2.$ Moreover, it belongs to the class $W^{1, 2}_{\rm loc}.$ Under certain additional requirements, it can also be chosen as a homeomorphic solution. We give an appropriate example of the equation that satisfies all the conditions of the main result of the article, but does not have a homeomorphic Sobolev solution.

On Dirichlet problem for Beltrami equations in finitely connected domains

Boundary value problems for the Beltrami equations are due to the famous Riemann dissertation (1851) in the simplest case of analytic functions and to the known works of Hilbert (1904, 1924) and Poincare (1910) for the corresponding Cauchy--Riemann system. Of course, the Dirichlet problem was well studied for uniformly elliptic systems, see, e.g., \cite{Boj} and \cite{Vekua}. Moreover, the corresponding results on the Dirichlet problem for degenerate Beltrami equations in the unit disk can be found in the monograph \cite{GRSY}. In our article \cite{KPR1}, see also \cite{KPR3} and \cite{KPR5}, it was shown that each generalized homeomorphic solution of a Beltrami equation is the so-called lower $Q-$homeomorphism with its dilatation quotient as $Q$ and developed on this basis the theory of the boundary behavior of such solutions. In the next papers \cite{KPR2} and \cite{KPR4}, the latter made possible us to solve the Dirichlet problem with continuous boundary data for a wide circle of degenerate Beltrami equations in finitely connected Jordan domains, see also [\citen{KPR5}--\citen{KPR7}]. Similar problems were also investigated in the case of bounded finitely connected domains in terms of prime ends by Caratheodory in the papers [\citen{KPR9}--\citen{KPR10}] and [\citen{P1}--\citen{P2}]. Finally, in the present paper, we prove a series of effective criteria for the existence of pseudo\-re\-gu\-lar and multi-valued solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the degenerate Beltrami equations in arbitrary bounded finitely connected domains in terms of prime ends by Caratheodory.

Composition of bi-Sobolev homeomorphisms

We give sharp conditions under which the composition of two homeomorphisms of finite distortion is of finite distortion and has integrable distortion. As an application, we obtain a generalization of the classical uniqueness theorem of homeomorphic solution to the measurable Riemann mapping problem.