Disc Schwarz--Christoffel maps with a vertex at infinity #
An unbounded polygonal Jordan domain that agrees at infinity with a sector of opening β * π
has a disc Schwarz--Christoffel representation with one additional prevertex at 1. Its exponent
is -β - 1, whereas the finite vertices retain the exponents given by their interior angles.
Thus the sum of all disc exponents is -2, even though the finite half-plane exponents sum to
β - 1.
The representation below includes the limits at every finite vertex and divergence at 1.
In particular, its added exponent is allowed to be less than -1: that prevertex maps to
infinity, rather than to a finite corner. The finite prevertices are the Cayley images of distinct
real prevertices, so none equals 1.
References #
- L. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, Ch. 6, Section 2.
- T. Driscoll and L. Trefethen, Schwarz--Christoffel Mapping, Ch. 2.
The disc Schwarz--Christoffel theorem for an unbounded polygonal Jordan domain.
Suppose a connected open set has Jordan frontier on the Riemann sphere, finitely many distinct
corners of angles (e i + 1) * π, straight sides away from those corners, and a sector of opening
β * π at infinity. Then it is the bijective image of the unit disc under an affine image of a
disc Schwarz--Christoffel primitive. The finite prevertices have exponents e i and tend to the
prescribed vertices; the additional prevertex 1 has exponent -β - 1 and tends to infinity.