Asymptotically symmetric embeddings and symmetric quasicircles

Abstract

A well-known characterization of quasicircles is the following: A Jordan curve J J in the complex plane is a quasicircle if and only if it is the image of the unit circle under a quasisymmetric embedding. In this paper we try to characterize a subclass of quasicircles, namely, symmetric quasicircles, by introducing the concept of asymptotically symmetric embeddings. We show that a Jordan curve J J in the complex plane is a symmetric quasicircle if and only if it is the image of the unit circle under an asymptotically symmetric embedding.