Unwinding spirals I

Abstract

. Inspired by the previous works by Freedman and He [FH], and Katznelson, Subhashis Nag, and Sullivan [KNS], we study the spiraling behaviour around a singularity of bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms in R 2 . In particular, we show that there is no bi-Lipschitz homeomorphism of R 2 that maps a spiral with a sub-exponential decay of winding radii to an unwound arc. This result is sharp as shows an example of a logarithmic spiral.