Iversen-type conjecture for planar harmonic functions

Let f:CCf:\mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C} be harmonic. A cluster point of ff is a point in the cluster set of ff at infinity, and an asymptotic value is a value approached by f(z)f(z) along a curve tending to infinity. The critical set of ff is the set where the differential of ff is singular.

Iversen-type conjecture. If the critical set of ff is nowhere dense and the cluster set of ff has empty interior, then every cluster point of ff is an asymptotic value. In particular, if every value in f(C)f(\mathbb{C}) is taken at most finitely many times, then every cluster point of ff is an asymptotic value.

This proposes an analogue of Iversen's theorem for planar harmonic functions, intermediate between the corresponding results for meromorphic or quasimeromorphic functions and the weaker alternatives available for continuous functions. The supplied text presents it as an expectation based on examples, and gives no resolution.

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Genevra Neumann, “Cluster points and asymptotic values of planar harmonic functions”, arXiv:math/0508624 (2005).

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