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For a polygonal domain with finite real prevertices $a_j$ and interior angles $\pi {\alpha }_j$, the Schwarz-Christoffel formula has the formwith branches chosen in the complex upper half-plane. A prevertex at infinity is interpreted by the corresponding limiting version of the formula. The exponent records the angle because locally $F-F(a_j)$ behaves as $(z-a_j{)}^{{\alpha }_j}$.

For a slit from $0$ to $\tau$ in the upper half-plane, put $\vartheta =\arg \tau \in (0,\pi )$. The two approaches to its base are separate boundary vertices with angles $\pi -\vartheta$ and $\vartheta$, and the tip has angle $2\pi$. With ordered prevertices $a<c<b$ mapping respectively to the base, tip and base, the Schwarz-Christoffel mapping therefore hasThe tip's factor is a simple zero of the boundary derivative, not an interior critical point.

For the specified power product, the principal branches givethroughout the complex upper half-plane, so $g$ maps into that half-plane. Logarithmic differentiation givesThere are no zeros of this derivative in the upper half-plane, so the map is locally conformal there. Its boundary values are negative real for $x<-1$, positive real for $x>1$, andThe positive scalar factor increases from zero to its maximum at $c$ and then decreases to zero, since its logarithmic derivative is $-k/(1-x)+(1-k)/(1+x)$. Therefore the tip isThe real boundary runs from the negative real axis to zero, out to $\tau$, back to zero, and then along the positive real axis.

For completeness, these boundary facts give global injectivity and surjectivity. At infinity,Apply the argument principle on a large upper half-disc, indenting the real prevertices by small semicircles. For a fixed $w$ in the upper half-plane off $[0,\tau ]$, the limiting image contour is the real boundary with the slit traversed once in each direction, followed by a large upper semicircle. Its winding number about $w$ is one. The two slit traversals cancel, so $g(z)-w$ has exactly one zero in the upper half-plane. There are no poles.

Nor can an interior point map onto the open slit. Each point of that slit has two real preimages, one on either side of $c$, with nonzero boundary derivatives. Local continuation across the real line maps the upper half-neighborhoods at these preimages onto the two different sides of the slit. An additional interior preimage would persist for nearby off-slit points and contradict the already proved one-preimage count. The tip cannot be an interior image either: the open mapping theorem would then place nearby open-slit points in the interior image. Finally, $g$ never vanishes inside the half-plane. Thus $g$ is a conformal bijection onto $S(\tau )$.

This is the power-product map to a slit half-plane. Its derivative is exactly the Schwarz-Christoffel formula with $a=-1$, $b=1$, $c=1-2k$, $\vartheta =\pi k$ and $C=1$. The additive constant is fixed by the boundary value $g(1)=0$. Thus the power-product expression is an explicit antiderivative of the corresponding Schwarz-Christoffel mapping, with this normalization.