[Math] Schwarz Reflection Principle on a unit disk

complex-analysis

Suppose $f$ is a analytic function defined on $\bar{D}(0;1)$ and has real value on the boundary. I'm trying to show $f$ can be extended to entire plane by $$g(z) = \begin{cases}f(z) &, \lvert z\rvert \leqslant 1\\ \frac{1}{\overline{f(\overline{z}^{-1})}}, &, \lvert z\rvert > 1\end{cases}
$$
I tried to use $\gamma(z)=e^{iz}$, which sends real axis to unit circle, for Schwarz Reflection Principle. But I did not get the result. May I get a help?

Best Answer

You can write various forms of the reflection principle, it seems to me that the formula that you are writing is correct for a map from unit disk to C which maps a unit circle to a unit circle (and not the real axis). In the case of a map from unit disk which maps the boundary to the real axis the formula is $$ g(z) = \begin{cases} f(z) \quad |z|\leq 1, \\ \overline{f(\frac{1}{\bar{z}})} \quad |z|>1 \end{cases} $$ which is what TrialAndError has.

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