Squaring map from a quadrant to the upper half-plane

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The map is a bijective conformal map from the open first quadrant to the complex upper half-plane. In polar coordinates it doubles arguments from to , and its derivative never vanishes inside the quadrant. Its inverse is the branch of the square root with argument in . By conformal invariance of harmonicity, a harmonic function on the half-plane pulls back to . The two boundary rays map to the positive and negative real axes, respectively.

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