Lens-to-strip logarithmic conformal map 2026-10-31
Compose the lens-to-quadrant Möbius map with the logarithm having argument in on the first quadrant. Polar coordinates show that the latter maps bijectively to the horizontal strip . Its inverse is the exponential function, so the combined inverse is . Both derivatives are nonzero, proving conformality. The logarithm's branch fixes the strip's vertical position; adding shifts that position without changing the exponential inverse.
The first region is the lens around zero bounded by the two circular arcs through and . Writing , its inequalities combine to . The second region is the open first quadrant, and the third is the open horizontal strip between imaginary parts zero and .
Set . The inverse is , andHence the lens condition is exactly . Multiplying by gives real part and imaginary part , both positive exactly under that condition. Thereforeis a Möbius transformation mapping the lens bijectively to the first quadrant. Its pole at one lies on the boundary, and its inverse is , well-defined throughout the quadrant. The derivative never vanishes in the lens. This is a lens-to-quadrant Möbius map.
