Conformal automorphism of disk implies fractional linear transformation
Statement
Suppose is the open unit disc in . Then, any conformal automorphism (a bijective biholomorphic mapping to itself) of comes as the restriction to and be the subgroup of comprising those automorphisms that arise by restricting fractional linear transformations to . We need to show that . We prove this by showing two things:
- acts transitively on
- contains the isotropy subgroup of in
Combining these two facts, we see that
Proof of transitivity
We'll show that given any element , there exists an element such that . This'll show transitivity.
Define:
This is a fractional linear transformation. To see that it takes the disc to itself,