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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 36 1 b Solution by
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For the Joukowski map ,It maps the exterior upper half-disc into . It is injective there: gives , and the second factor cannot vanish when both moduli exceed one. It is onto as well. For , the two roots of have product one. Neither lies on the unit circle, since is real there. Exactly one root has modulus greater than one, and the displayed imaginary-part formula makes its imaginary part positive. That root belongs to and maps to .
Since takes values in , its domain must be contained in . The established injectivity and surjectivity of mean that no proper subdomain of can map onto all of using this same function. ThereforeThe half-plane capacity is the coefficient of in the normalized expansion. If hulls are regarded as closed subsets of , take the closure of this half-disc, including its diameter; its relative half-plane hull and capacity are unchanged. This is the half-plane capacity of a half-disc.
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