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The Geometry of Möbius Transformations John Olsen University of Rochester Spring 2010 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Affine Transformations 2 3 The Stereographic Projection 4 4 The Inversion Map 9 5 Möbius Transformations 11 6 The Cross Ratio 14 7 The Symmetry Principle and Maps of the Unit Disk and the Upper Halfplane 17 C ) 23 8 Conjugacy Classes in M( ∞ 9 Geometric Classification of Conjugacy Classes 26 10 Möbius Transformations of Finite Period 28 11 Rotations of C 28 ∞ 12 Finite Groups of Möbius Transformations 31 13 Bibliography 34 14 Problems 35 1 Introduction The purpose of these notes is to explore some basic properties of Möbius transforma- tions (linear fractional transformations) which are one-to-one, onto and conformal (angle preserving) maps of the socalled extended complex plane. We will develop the basic properties of these maps and classify the one-to-one and onto conformal maps of the unit disk and the upper half plane using the symmetry principle. The one-to-one, onto and conformal maps of the extended complex plane form a