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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 1 13A b Solution by
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It helps to separate the tangent and the squaring map. Put , with . The identityshows that gives and . To see that every point of this right half-disc occurs, setThen has and satisfies . The principal complex logarithm is unambiguous because is in the first quadrant.
Squaring maps this right half-disc bijectively onto the unit disc with the interval removed: the argument of lies between and , and doubles into . Thus the desired image isNeither derivative vanishes in the domain, so the composition is also a conformal map onto that slit disc.
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