Solution

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Since
the critical points are exactly
The holomorphic inverse function theorem shows that is conformal locally everywhere else.
For ,
Its imaginary part is positive throughout . On the three boundary pieces,
These intervals traverse the boundary of the upper half-plane. The inverse branch
exists for , proving that the image is precisely
This is the hyperbolic-cosine half-strip map.

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