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The main results of this paper are characterizations of John disks-the simply connected proper subdomains of the complex plane that satisfy a twisted double cone connectivity property. One of the characterizations of John disks is an analog of a result due to Gehring and Hag who found such a characterization for quasidisks. In both situations the geometric condition is an estimate for the domain’s hyperbolic metric in terms of its Apollonian metric. The other characterization is in terms of an arc min-max property.
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Dedicated to Matti Vuorinen on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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Huang, M., Ponnusamy, S. & Wang, X. John disks, the Apollonian metric, and min-max properties. Proc Math Sci 120, 83–96 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12044-010-0002-7
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