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Past exam of the algebra, analysis and differential equations 1 course of the University of Oxford / 2006 / 6 / Solution by

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A holomorphic function with

f^{'} (z) \neq = 0

at every point is locally a conformal map. Write

a = z_{0}

. Since

∣ a ∣ < 1

and

∣ z ∣ < 1

,

1 - \overline{a} z \neq = 0

, and

f^{'} (z) = \frac{∣ a ∣ ^{2} - 1}{( 1 - a z ) ^{2}} \neq = 0.

Thus the specified Möbius transformation is conformal throughout the disk. Expanding the two squared absolute values gives

1 - ∣ f (z) ∣^{2} = \frac{( 1 - ∣ a ∣ ^{2} ) ( 1 - ∣ z ∣ ^{2} )}{∣1 - a z ∣ ^{2}} > 0,

so

f

maps the open unit disk into itself. Solving

w = (a - z) / (1 - \overline{a} z)

gives

z = (a - w) / (1 - \overline{a} w) = f (w)

. Equivalently

f (f (z)) = z

. Hence

f

is its own inverse, proving both injectivity and surjectivity on the disk. Nonvanishing derivative establishes the local angle-preserving property; the explicit inverse supplies the separate global bijection claim.

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