He–Schramm rigidity conjecture for circle domains

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A circle domain Ω⊂C^\Omega\subset\widehat{\mathbb C} is a domain whose boundary components are points or circles. It is conformally rigid if every conformal map of C^\widehat{\mathbb C} that is conformal outside ∂Ω\partial\Omega maps Ω\Omega onto itself, and a set is conformally removable if every homeomorphism of the sphere conformal off that set is Möbius. He–Schramm's rigidity conjecture. A circle domain Ω\Omega is conformally rigid if and only if its boundary ∂Ω\partial\Omega is conformally removable. The conjecture was subsequently disproved by Rajala: the forward implication fails, while the reverse direction remains open.

References

Primary source

Dimitrios Ntalampekos, “Uniformization problems in the plane: A survey”, arXiv:2603.15098 (2026).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2210.04740, arXiv:1809.05573, arXiv:1511.07348.

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