Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle for the Loewner Equation in Higher Dimensions

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we develop a variational method for the Loewner equation in higher dimensions. As a result we obtain a version of Pontryagin’s maximum principle from optimal control theory for the Loewner equation in several complex variables. Based on recent work of Arosio, Bracci, and Wold, we then apply our version of the Pontryagin maximum principle to obtain first-order necessary conditions for the extremal mappings for a wide class of extremal problems over the set of normalized biholomorphic mappings on the unit ball in ℂn.