Put . Since has no zeros and the unit disc is simply connected, it has a holomorphic logarithm. Thus is holomorphic with and . The Cayley transform between the half-plane and disk gives
The Schwarz lemma yields , so the Carathéodory derivative bound for the right half-plane gives . Since , the sharp answer is
Equality in the Schwarz lemma holds exactly when , . Solving for and exponentiating gives exactly the extremizers
Their logarithmic real part is , so each is indeed a zero-free map into the unit disc with the prescribed value at zero.
For a fixed , put . Apply the Harnack inequality on the unit disk to the positive harmonic function and then exponentiate its negative. The zero-free Schwarz lemma gives
For both endpoints are attained: take for the lower endpoint and for the upper endpoint in the displayed extremizers. At zero both are . If the question is interpreted as allowing to vary as well, the sharp infimum and supremum over all admissible pairs are respectively and , approached as ; neither value is attained inside the unit disc. An individual function need not have these global extremal values: the constant function is a simple example.