The best bound of the area--length ratio in Ahlfors Covering surface theory (I)
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In Ahlfors' covering surface theory, it is well known that there exists a positive constant $h$ such that for any nonconstant holomorphic mapping $f:% \barΔ\to S,$ if $f(Δ)\cap \{0,1,\infty \}=\emptyset ,$ then% A(f,Δ)\leq hL(f,\partial Δ),% where $Δ$ is the disk $|z|<1$ in $\mathbb{C},$ $S$ is the unit Riemann sphere, $A(f,Δ)$ is the area of the image of $Δ$ and $% L(f,\partial Δ)$ is the length of the image of $\partial Δ$, both counting multiplicities.
In this paper, we will show that the best lower bound for $h$ is the number h_{0}=\max_{τ\in \lbrack 0,1]}[ \frac{\sqrt{1+τ^{2}}(π+\arcsin τ)}{\mathrm{{arccot}\frac{\sqrt{1-τ^{2}}}{\sqrt{% 1+τ^{2}}}}}-τ] =4. \allowbreak 034 159 790 \allowbreak 51..., % and this is the exact estimation, i.e. there exists a sequence of holomorphic mappings $f_{n}:\barΔ\to S$ such that $% f_{n}(Δ)\cap \{0,1,\infty \}=\emptyset $ and \lim_{n\to \infty}A(f_{n},Δ)/L(f_{n},\partial Δ)=h_{0}.
83 pages
83 pages