Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ib Paper 1 3B Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
Sincethe critical points are exactlyThe holomorphic inverse function theorem shows that is conformal locally everywhere else.
For ,Its imaginary part is positive throughout . On the three boundary pieces,These intervals traverse the boundary of the upper half-plane. The inverse branchexists for , proving that the image is preciselyThis is the hyperbolic-cosine half-strip map.