A Bloch-Landau Theorem for slice regular functions

Abstract

The Bloch-Landau Theorem is one of the basic results in the geometric theory of holomorphic functions. It establishes that the image of the open unit disc $\mathbb{D}$ under a holomorphic function $f$ (such that $f(0)=0$ and $f'(0)=1$) always contains an open disc with radius larger than a universal constant. In this paper we prove a Bloch-Landau type Theorem for slice regular functions over the skew field $\mathbb{H}$ of quaternions. If $f$ is a regular function on the open unit ball $\mathbb{B}\subset \mathbb{H}$, then for every $w \in \mathbb{B}$ we define the regular translation $\tilde f_w$ of $f$. The peculiarities of the non commutative setting lead to the following statement: there exists a universal open set contained in the image of $\mathbb{B}$ through some regular translation $\tilde f_w$ of any slice regular function $f: \mathbb{B} \to \mathbb{H}$ (such that $f(0)=0$ and $\partial_C f(0)=1$). For technical reasons, we introduce a new norm on the space of regular functions on open balls centred at the origin, equivalent to the uniform norm, and we investigate its properties.