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Schwarz–Christoffel mappings to unbounded multiply connected polygonal regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2007

DARREN CROWDY
DARREN CROWDY*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 2AZ.
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Abstract

A formula for the generalized Schwarz–Christoffel conformal mapping from a bounded multiply connected circular domain to an unbounded multiply connected polygonal domain is derived. The formula for the derivative of the mapping function is shown to contain a product of powers of Schottky–Klein prime functions associated with the circular preimage domain. Two analytical checks of the new formula are given. First, it is compared with a known formula in the doubly connected case. Second, a new slit mapping formula from a circular domain to the triply connected region exterior to three slits on the real axis is derived using separate arguments. The derivative of this independently-derived slit mapping formula is shown to correspond to a degenerate case of the new Schwarz–Christoffel mapping. The example of the mapping to the triply connected region exterior to three rectangles centred on the real axis is considered in detail.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 142 , Issue 2 , March 2007 , pp. 319 - 339
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2007

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