OpenAI research collection · 2 manuscripts · Source checked 2026-10-19
The idea in plain language
These papers study whether a region in the extended complex plane can be reshaped, preserving local angles, so its missing pieces become round disks or points. The family claims the general existence result and a rigidity result under additional boundary conditions.
Why it matters
Simpler geometric representations can make complicated analytic questions easier to study. The rigidity claim has conditions beyond the existence theorem.
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Resolves the existence part of Koebe's circle-domain conjecture: every domain in the Riemann sphere is conformally equivalent to a domain whose complementary components are round disks or points. It also proves that circle domains with conformally removable boundary are rigid, meaning every conformal equivalence to another circle domain is Möbius, establishing this direction of the He–Schramm conjecture.
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MANUSCRIPT 01
Removable Boundaries and Rigidity of Circle Domains
We prove that a circle domain with conformally removable boundary is conformally rigid, with no restriction on the number of complementary components. This establishes the removability-to-rigidity direction of the He–Schramm Conjecture.
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