Exercise 9.  Show that      maps the upper half-plane      

onto the upper half-plane      slit along the segment from  ,   

as shown in Figure 11.83.                     Figure 11.83.

Hint.  Set   ,  ,  ,   and   ,  ,  ,   respectively.  

Solution 9.

See text and/or instructor's solution manual.

Answer.   ,   integrate and get   ,  

then use the conditions     and     and obtain   .

Solution.   Along the x-axis use the points   .   The exterior angles are  ,  

and the formula for the derivative is  given by the Schwarz-Christoffel formula  

                      

Integrate and get

                       

        The images of   ,   are   ,   respectively.

Use    and  ,  and obtain the system of equations

                      

Which simplifies to be   

                      

The values    are solutions for this system of equations.
            
Therefore,   

                    .  

We are done.   

Aside.  We can let Mathematica double check our work.

Remark.  The term    is undefined, but by convention we know that   .  

We are really done.   

Aside.  For illustration purposes we can graph the mapping   .  

                    The image of the upper half plane    under a conformal branch of

                    the mapping   .  

This solution is complements of the authors.

(c) 2008 John H. Mathews, Russell W. Howell