The equality must be a first return time: an order starting or would already have stopped at draw two. The only successful four-draw orders are therefore and . Their probabilities under sampling without replacement add to
Here . Counting all balanced four-draw orders would include games that have already stopped.
After one draw the two counts are either or and cannot agree. Therefore
This is the elementary parity restriction behind the first return time interpretation of this game.
For the reciprocal Möbius transformation, substitute , and multiply by , which is nonzero on the stipulated domain. This yields
Consequently
For a nondegenerate original circle, says that it passes through the origin, and its image is a straight line. The restriction must be retained: multiplying through does not authorize adding that excluded point. Degenerate choices can give a constant or an identically zero equation instead of a straight line.
For the translation, expand the products of complex numbers and collect the terms in , , and the constant:
It follows that
The last coefficient is real because .
For the real positive dilation factor, and . Thus
and
The original PDF specifies a dilation; the differently named transformation in the OCR is an error.
Under the given rotation, and . Collecting terms gives
Since , the transformed coefficients are
A squared complex modulus is nonnegative. Conversely, every nonnegative right-hand side of can be attained. The necessary and sufficient condition is therefore
Completing the square directly with the complex modulus gives
For , this is the circle with centre and radius . Equality gives just the point , and gives the empty locus. In particular, the nondegenerate answer is
Using the complex conjugate, . The locus is therefore the straight line
In the complex plane, the quantity is the signed scalar projection of in the direction . Thus the straight line is perpendicular to and passes through . This description uses no separation of into real coordinates.
Put . The two linear equations from parts (i) and (ii) give and , so . Therefore
These formulas include , when and .
Let denote the integral with the cosine factor and the one with the sine factor. In integration by parts, take and . Then
The integer restriction gives .
For and , put . This is the standard substitution for a homogeneous first-order differential equation. Since , the equation becomes
Taking antiderivatives yields . The explicit general solution is therefore
on any interval where and , with a fixed choice of sign. For a check that does not divide by , set to get and hence .
There is no missing zero solution: at with , the original equation would require . Also no real solution on an interval about can arise from this family, since becomes negative near .
Where , the separable differential equation is . Separating and taking antiderivatives gives , for nonzero . Including the zero solution, the explicit general solution is
on any interval with . It can also be obtained without dividing by : the product rule gives .
A nonzero solution cannot extend through a zero of . If a differentiable solution is required on an interval containing such a zero, the original equation there requires , and the only such solution across that zero is .

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