Harmonic mappings onto stars

A general version of the Radó–Kneser–Choquet theorem implies that a piecewise constant sensepreserving mapping of the unit circle onto the vertices of a convex polygon extends to a univalent harmonic mapping of the unit disk onto the polygonal domain. This paper discusses similarly generated harmonic mappings of the disk onto nonconvex polygonal regions in the shape of regular stars. Calculation of the Blaschke product dilatation allows a determination of the exact range of parameters that produce univalent mappings.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.