Intrinsic geometry and boundary structure of plane domains

Abstract

For a non-empty compact set $E$ in a proper subdomain $\Omega$ of the complex plane, we denote the diameter of $E$ and the distance from $E$ to the boundary of $\Omega$ by $d(E)$ and $d(E,\partial \Omega ),$ respectively. The quantity $d(E)/d(E,\partial \Omega )$ is invariant under similarities and plays an important role in Geometric Function Theory. In the present paper, when $\Omega$ has the hyperbolic distance $h_{\Omega }(z,w),$ we consider the infimum $\kappa (\Omega )$ of the quantity $h_{\Omega }(E)/\log (1+d(E)/d(E,\partial \Omega ))$ over compact subsets $E$ of $\Omega$ with at least two points, where $h_{\Omega }(E)$ stands for the hyperbolic diameter of the set $E.$ We denote the upper half-plane by $\mathbb{H}$. Our main results claim that $\kappa (\Omega )$ is positive if and only if the boundary of $\Omega$ is uniformly perfect and that the inequality $\kappa (\Omega )\le \kappa (\mathbb{H})$ holds for all $\Omega ,$ where equality holds precisely when $\Omega$ is convex.

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