Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-27/4/solution

The conformal automorphism of the upper half-plane with the indicated three boundary values is
Its Möbius transformation matrix has determinant one, so it preserves . The inverse is . In particular
on 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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