Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 1 2A Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
For complex differentiability at a point, the derivative must have the same value along real and imaginary increments. Along real increments it equals , while along imaginary increments it equals . Equating real and imaginary parts gives the Cauchy-Riemann equationsFor the given real part,Integrating the Cauchy-Riemann equations gives a harmonic conjugateThis open set is open and connected; is holomorphic there with derivative . The origin must be excluded because the real part is undefined there. On this connected open set, any other harmonic conjugate differs by a real constant: the Cauchy-Riemann equations make both partial derivatives of the difference zero.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 2 13D Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
Let be tangent vectors to the two smooth curves at . complex differentiability at a point givesWhen , its real derivative is multiplication by a nonzero complex number, which is a rotation followed by a positive scaling. It therefore preserves the angle between and , so is conformal at . The condition is essential: has and sends rays making angle at zero to rays making angle .
For ,If both satisfy , or both satisfy , the alternative is impossible unless the points lie on the omitted unit circle. Hence is one-to-one on each region. Also has no zero there, so the restrictions are conformal. Solving shows that exactly when both roots lie on the unit circle; otherwise one root is inside and the other outside. Thus each region has image
Taking the reciprocal of the interior restriction and filling its removable value at zero givesThe reciprocal sends ontoand . Therefore is the required one-to-one conformal map from the unit disc.