Chaudri, Muhammad Hayat.2009-04-172009-04-1719661966Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3169.http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10480http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-16846In this thesis we investigate the distortion caused by an analytic map f : B → W, between the Bergman metric dsB of a bounded domain B in the complex z-plane and the Euclidean metric of the complex w-plane W. We deduce sharp inequalities in the cases of the unit disc, the punctured hyperbolic plane and the annuli, and the minimizing maps are determined.31 p.Mathematics.On the Bergman metric of an annulus.Thesis