Callahan, Kevin; Rodin, Burt Circle packing immersions form regularly exhaustible surfaces. (English) Zbl 0793.30025 Complex Variables, Theory Appl. 21, No. 3-4, 171-177 (1993). Circle packing imbeddings determine quasiconformal mappings which, in certain situations, approximate conformal mappings. In the more general case of circle packing immersions, it has not been proven that the associated immersion mappings are again quasiregular (i.e., of bounded dilatation but not necessarily univalent). If this were true, then their multisheeted image surfaces would be regularly exhaustible and consequently Ahlfors’ value distribution theory for covering surfaces could be applied to them. In this paper, although we do not settle the question of whether such immersions are quasiregular, we are able to prove directly from length-area estimates that the property of being regularly exhaustible holds for the multisheeted image surfaces. Thus, for example, a Picard type theorem holds: The image of an entire circle packing immersion omits at most one finite value in the complex plane. Reviewer: B.Rodin (La Jolla) Cited in 5 Documents MSC: 30D35 Value distribution of meromorphic functions of one complex variable, Nevanlinna theory Keywords:circle packing; regularly exhaustible PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{K. Callahan} and \textit{B. Rodin}, Complex Variables, Theory Appl. 21, No. 3--4, 171--177 (1993; Zbl 0793.30025) Full Text: DOI