Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2016 / iii / Paper 203 / 2 / a

The mapping-out function of a compact H-hull is the unique conformal bijection from $H=\mathbb{H}\setminus K$ onto the complex upper half-plane with hydrodynamic normalization at infinity:The nonnegative coefficient $a_K$ is the half-plane capacity of $K$. The leading coefficient one and constant term zero remove the affine ambiguity of a half-plane map. In the compact H-hull convention, $K$ is bounded and relatively closed in $\mathbb{H}$, and its complement is a simply connected domain; boundary attachment points can be included in its closure.

We will use these standard properties explicitly: $g_K$ and its inverse extend holomorphically by Schwarz reflection principle across real intervals outside the hull's real attachment region; their real boundary restrictions are strictly increasing; and their normalized Laurent series hold in a full reflected neighbourhood of infinity. In particular, when $K$ lies in the unit disc, these extensions exist across $(-\infty ,-1)$ and $(1,\infty )$.