Clunie–Sheil-Small coefficient conjecture for normalized harmonic univalent mappings

Let f=h+gSH0f=h+\overline{g}\in\mathcal{S}^0_H, where hh and gg have the series representations specified in the source. The harmonic Koebe function is

K(z)=z12z2+16z3(1z)3+(12z2+16z3(1z)3).K(z)=\frac{z-\frac{1}{2}z^2+\frac{1}{6}z^3}{(1-z)^3}+\overline{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}z^2+\frac{1}{6}z^3}{(1-z)^3}\right)}.

Clunie–Sheil-Small's coefficient conjecture. For every n2n\geq 2,

an(n+1)(2n+1)6,bn(n1)(2n1)6,anbnn.|a_n|\leq\frac{(n+1)(2n+1)}{6},\qquad |b_n|\leq\frac{(n-1)(2n-1)}{6},\qquad \big||a_n|-|b_n|\big|\leq n.

The bounds are attained by the harmonic Koebe function KK. This is an open coefficient problem for harmonic univalent mappings, attributed in the source to Clunie and Sheil-Small.

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Primary source

Peijin Li and Saminathan Ponnusamy, “On the coefficients estimate of K-quasiconformal harmonic mappings”, arXiv:2504.08284 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1708.03883, arXiv:1606.08134.

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