Small-radius convexity conjecture for Cassinian balls in the upper half-plane

Let H2={zC:Imz>0}\mathbb{H}^2=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:\operatorname{Im}z>0\}, let δH2(x)\delta_{\mathbb{H}^2}(x) denote the Euclidean distance from xx to the boundary, and let BcH2(x,r)B_{c_{\mathbb{H}^2}}(x,r) be the Cassinian ball of radius rr. Small-radius convexity conjecture. There exists a>0a>0 such that BcH2(x,r)B_{c_{\mathbb{H}^2}}(x,r) is convex for all xH2x\in\mathbb{H}^2 and r(0,aδH2(x)]r\in(0,a\delta_{\mathbb{H}^2}(x)]. Computer experiments suggest that this holds for a0.85a\approx0.85, but no proof is given.

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Riku Klén, Manas Ranjan Mohapatra and Swadesh Kumar Sahoo, “Geometric properties of the Cassinian metric”, arXiv:1511.01298 (2015).

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