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Composing a hypothetical conformal equivalence $\mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{H}$ with a Cayley transform $\mathbb{H}\to \mathbb{D}$ would give a nonconstant bounded entire function, contradicting the Liouville theorem.

Use the conformal map of a vertical half-strip by sine followed by a Cayley transform:We verify that this maps the entire half-strip bijectively onto the unit disc. First,so the sine image lies in the upper half-plane. Also $\cos z\ne 0$ in the domain, making the map locally a conformal map. If $\sin z=\sin w$, the identity for a difference of sines gives either $z-w=2\pi n$ or $z+w=(2n+1)\pi$. The real-part bounds force $n=0$ in the first case, while positive imaginary parts exclude the second. Thus sine is injective.

For surjectivity, given any $w$ in the upper half-plane, solveNo root is on the unit circle, since $w=(t-t^{-1})/(2i)$ would then be real. The product of the two roots is $-1$, so exactly one root has $|t|<1$. For this root,which forces $\mathrm{Re}t>0$. Choose its logarithm with argument in $(-\pi /2,\pi /2)$ and put $z=-i\log t$. Then $\mathrm{Im}z=-\log |t|>0$, its real part lies in the required interval, and $\sin z=w$. This proves that sine maps onto the upper half-plane.

Finally, for $\mathrm{Im}w>0$, $|w-i|<|w+i|$, and the Möbius transformation $(w-i)/(w+i)$ is a bijection to the unit disc. Its inverse is $w=i(1+\zeta )/(1-\zeta )$. Both constituent derivatives are nonzero, completing the proof for the displayed conformal map.

The domains are not conformally equivalent. If $F:\mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{H}$ were a conformal equivalence, composing it with a Cayley transform from the upper half-plane $\mathbb{H}$ to the unit disc would produce a bounded nonconstant entire function. This contradicts the Liouville theorem, proving that the complex plane is not conformally equivalent to the upper half-plane.