Conjectured Lipschitz bound for Möbius transformations of the unit disk in the t-metric

Let B2={zC:z<1}\mathbb{B}^2=\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|<1\} be the unit disk, and for aB2a\in\mathbb{B}^2 define the Möbius transformation

Ta:B2B2,Ta(z)=za1az.T_a:\mathbb{B}^2\to\mathbb{B}^2,\qquad T_a(z)=\frac{z-a}{1-\overline{a}z}.

Here tB2t_{\mathbb{B}^2} denotes the tt-metric on B2\mathbb{B}^2. Möbius t-metric conjecture. For all a,x,yB2a,x,y\in\mathbb{B}^2,

tB2(Ta(x),Ta(y))(1+a)tB2(x,y).t_{\mathbb{B}^2}(T_a(x),T_a(y))\leq (1+|a|)t_{\mathbb{B}^2}(x,y).

The general theorem gives the bound 22 for conformal self-mappings, while this conjecture predicts the sharper constant 1+a1+|a| for these particular Möbius transformations. It is supported by several numerical tests, but remains open in the source.

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Primary source

Oona Rainio and Matti Vuorinen, “Introducing a new intrinsic metric”, arXiv:2010.01984 (2020).

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