Complex plane is not conformally equivalent to the upper half-plane Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Composing a hypothetical conformal equivalence with a Cayley transform would give a nonconstant bounded entire function, contradicting the Liouville theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ib Paper 2 14F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ib Paper 4 3G ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The domains are not conformally equivalent. If were a conformal equivalence, composing it with a Cayley transform from the upper half-plane 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.