Because avoids the closed negative real axis, its principal square root is holomorphic, satisfies , and has . The Cayley transform between the half-plane and disk
maps the right half-plane into the unit disk and has . By Schwarz lemma, . When ,
Thus
so one may take the universal constant .
In local coordinates around and , a nonconstant analytic map has the form
After shrinking the chart, has an analytic th root, so a change of coordinate makes the map . It maps small discs onto neighborhoods of the origin; hence every nonconstant analytic map of Riemann surfaces is open. If is compact and connected, is compact and therefore closed, and it is also nonempty and open. Thus .
For with , the removable-singularity theorem makes analytic. On , , and the maximum principle gives the same bound throughout . Applying the Schwarz lemma to an automorphism and to shows that every automorphism fixing zero is
If is an analytic isomorphism fixing zero, continuity of implies that the preimage of every closed disc is compact. Hence as , and defining gives an analytic isomorphism of the Riemann sphere.
Consequently an automorphism of fixing zero does extend to . A general disc automorphism need not: for ,
has a finite pole and cannot extend to an entire isomorphism.
Schwarz-Pick theorem 2026-10-14
A holomorphic self-map of the unit disc contracts its pseudohyperbolic distance. Conjugating by Möbius transformations that send one chosen source point and its image to zero reduces the statement to the Schwarz lemma. In the complex upper half-plane this gives
If at infinity, multiply the equivalent inequality between one minus the squared distances by and let . It yields . Applied to the inverse mapping-out function of a compact H-hull, this proves the nonnegativity of its half-plane capacity.