The right half-plane consists of complex numbers with positive real part. Its boundary is the imaginary axis. For example, is inside, is on the boundary, and is outside. Rotation takes the right half-plane onto the upper half-plane; the Cayley transform between the half-plane and disk uses for this convention.
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In the context of engineering, mathematics, and particularly control theory and complex analysis, the "right half-plane" refers to the set of complex numbers that have a positive real part.