Stretch maps on the affine-additive group

Abstract

We define linear and radial stretch maps in the affine-additive group, and prove that they are minimizers of the mean quasiconformal distortion functional. For the proofs we use a method based on the notion of modulus of a curve family and the minimal stretching property (MSP) of the afore-mentioned maps. MSP relies on certain given curve families compatible with the respective geometric settings of the stretch maps.