Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 203 3 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Assume the domains are proper, so and are finite and positive, and interpret the conformal transformation as a bijection. Apply the Koebe quarter theorem toThe open ball lies in , so is a normalized univalent function. Its image inclusion shows that . Therefore , or .
Apply the same argument to the inverse conformal map, whose derivative at is . It gives . Thus the boundary-distance derivative bound for a conformal bijection isThe full domains need not be simply connected domains: only the two interior discs are used. If the whole plane is allowed as a domain, a conformal bijection onto another plane domain is affine and both domains are the whole plane. For example, and make both boundary distances infinite and the printed ratios undefined. This is a necessary proper-domain convention. Bijectivity also matters: the injective conformal map from the unit disc into itself has at zero but . Thus an interpretation allowing a map into, rather than onto, the second domain makes the lower bound false.