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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 4 14D Solution by
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The inner circle has centre and radius . The pole of the Möbius transformation lies inside that removed disc, so the transformation is holomorphic on , with derivative .
For ,On the outer boundary this is one. On the inner boundary, , and the ratio is four. More directly, inside the outer circle the numerator exceeds the denominator by , whereas outside the inner circle four times the denominator exceeds the numerator by . Thus the image is . The inverse transformation is , so this is a bijective conformal map onto that annulus.
A radial harmonic function on an annulus has form . The two boundary values give , . By conformal invariance of harmonicity,It has the required boundary values, and the maximum principle for harmonic functions proves uniqueness among solutions continuous on the closed region.
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