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Graziano Gentili

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arXiv2014

A Bloch-Landau Theorem for slice regular functions

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.

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arXiv2014

Landau-Toeplitz theorems for slice regular functions over quaternions

The theory of slice regular functions of a quaternionic variable extends the notion of holomorphic function to the quaternionic setting. This theory, already rich of results, is sometimes surprisingly different from the theory of holomorphic functions of a complex variable. However, several fundamental results in the two environments are similar, even if their proofs for the case of quaternions need new technical tools. In this paper we prove the Landau-Toeplitz Theorem for slice regular functions, in a formulation that involves an appropriate notion of regular $2$-diameter. We then show that the Landau-Toeplitz inequalities hold in the case of the regular $n$-diameter, for all $n\geq 2$. Finally, a $3$-diameter version of the Landau-Toeplitz Theorem is proved using the notion of slice $3$-diameter.

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arXiv2013

Twistor transforms of quaternionic functions and orthogonal complex structures

The theory of slice regular functions of a quaternion variable is applied to the study of orthogonal complex structures on domains Ω of R^4. When Ω is a symmetric slice domain, the twistor transform of such a function is a holomorphic curve in the Klein quadric. The case in which Ω is the complement of a parabola is studied in detail and described by a rational quartic surface in the twistor space CP^3.

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arXiv2009

Extension results for slice regular functions of a quaternionic variable

In this paper we prove a new representation formula for slice regular functions, which shows that the value of a slice regular function $f$ at a point $q=x+yI$ can be recovered by the values of $f$ at the points $q+yJ$ and $q+yK$ for any choice of imaginary units $I, J, K.$ This result allows us to extend the known properties of slice regular functions defined on balls centered on the real axis to a much larger class of domains, called axially symmetric domains. We show, in particular, that axially symmetric domains play, for slice regular functions, the role played by domains of holomorphy for holomorphic functions.

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arXiv2009

A Cauchy kernel for slice regular functions

In this paper we show how to construct a regular, non commutative Cauchy kernel for slice regular quaternionic functions. We prove an (algebraic) representation formula for such functions, which leads to a new Cauchy formula. We find the expression of the derivatives of a regular function in terms of the powers of the Cauchy kernel, and we present several other consequent results.

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arXiv2008

Möbius transformations and the Poincaré distance in the quaternionic setting

In the space $\hh$ of quaternions, we investigate the natural, invariant geometry of the open, unit disc $Δ_{\hh}$ and of the open half-space $\hh^{+}$. These two domains are diffeomorphic via a Cayley-type transformation. We first study the geometrical structure of the groups of Möbius transformations of $Δ_{\hh}$ and $\hh^{+}$ and identify original ways of representing them in terms of two (isomorphic) groups of matrices with quaternionic entries. We then define the cross-ratio of four quaternions, prove that, when real, it is invariant under the action of the Möbius transformations, and use it to define the analogous of the Poincaré distances on $Δ_{\hh}$ and $\hh^{+}$. We easily deduce that there exists no isometry between the quaternionic Poincaré distance of $Δ_{\hh}$ and the Kobayashi distance inherited by $Δ_{\hh}$ as a domain of $\mathbb{C}^{2}$, in accordance with a direct consequence of the classification of the non compact, rank 1, symmetric spaces.

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arXiv2007

Valiron's construction in higher dimension

We consider holomorphic self-maps $\v$ of the unit ball $\B^N$ in $\C^N$ ($N=1,2,3,...$). In the one-dimensional case, when $\v$ has no fixed points in $\D\defeq \B^1$ and is of hyperbolic type, there is a classical renormalization procedure due to Valiron which allows to semi-linearize the map $ϕ$, and therefore, in this case, the dynamical properties of $ϕ$ are well understood. In what follows, we generalize the classical Valiron construction to higher dimensions under some weak assumptions on $\v$ at its Denjoy-Wolff point. As a result, we construct a semi-conjugation $σ$, which maps the ball into the right half plane of $\C$, and solves the functional equation $σ\circ \v=λσ$, where $λ>1$ is the (inverse of the) boundary dilation coefficient at the Denjoy-Wolff point of $\v$.

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