© 2002 by London Mathematical Society
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On Prime Ends and Plane Continua
Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain, jcar{at}mat.uab.es
MA 8-2, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität D-10623 Berlin, Germany, pommeren{at}math.tu-berlin.de
Received 11 June 2001. Revision received 7 January 2002.
Let f be a conformal map of the unit disk D onto the domain G
= C
{
}. We shall always use the spherical metric in
.
Carathéodory [3] introduced the concept of a prime end of G in order to describe the boundary behaviour of f in geometric terms; see for example [6, Chapter 9] or [12, Section 2.4]. There is a bijective map
of T =
D onto the set of prime ends of G.