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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 27 4 Solution by
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The conformal automorphism of the upper half-plane with the indicated three boundary values isIts Möbius transformation matrix has determinant one, so it preserves . The inverse is . In particularon the extended real boundary. Therefore the image trace's first contact with the latter ray corresponds to the original time . The map sends the original target at infinity to the new target ; it does not preserve the target of the chordal curve.
We use the image half-plane capacity as its time parameter:Since is a conformal automorphism of the upper half-plane analytic at , its real derivative there is strictly positive. Hence is continuous and strictly increasing before . The original time and image time must be kept distinct throughout the comparison.
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