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On Geometric Aspects of Quaternionic and Octonionic Slice Regular Functions

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The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we enrich from a geometrical point of view the theory of octonionic slice regular functions. We first prove a boundary Schwarz lemma for slice regular self-mappings of the open unit ball of the octonionic space. As applications, we obtain two Landau–Toeplitz type theorems for slice regular functions with respect to regular diameter and slice diameter, respectively, together with a Cauchy type estimate. Along with these results, we introduce some new and useful ideas, which also allow us to prove the minimum principle and one version of the open mapping theorem. On the other hand, we adopt a completely new approach to strengthen a version of boundary Schwarz lemma first proved in Ren and Wang (Trans Am Math Soc 369:861–885, 2017) for quaternionic slice regular functions. Our quaternionic boundary Schwarz lemma with optimal estimate improves considerably a well-known Osserman type estimate and provides additionally all the extremal functions.

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  1. Very recently, the author has proved in his doctoral dissertation a generalization of Theorem 1.1 for slice regular functions mapping a symmetric slice domain with \(C^2\) boundary to a convex domain with \(C^1\) boundary.

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Wang, X. On Geometric Aspects of Quaternionic and Octonionic Slice Regular Functions. J Geom Anal 27, 2817–2871 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-017-9784-5

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