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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 203 1 b Solution by
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There is a small closure issue in the printed set: the unit disc is open, so its half-disc is not relatively closed in . As written, the set is not a compact H-hull. We compute the intended half-plane capacity after taking its relative closure in .
First remove the closed unit half-disc . Its mapping-out function of a compact H-hull is the Joukowski mapFor on the remaining portion of the vertical slit, ,Thus the image of the remaining slit is . By the half-plane capacity of a vertical slit, its capacity is . The half-plane-capacity composition rule givesAs a direct check, composing with the slit map gives , with the branch asymptotic to . Its coefficient is .
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