Prove that a certain Möbius transformation looks like $f(z)=(az+b)/(\bar{a}z+\bar{b})$.

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I have some trouble proving this:

A Möbius transformation $f$ is such that $f(\mathbb{R}\cup\{\infty\})=S^{1}$ iff it looks like
$$
f(z)=\frac{az+b}{\bar{a}z+\bar{b}}
$$

with $a$ and $b$ in $\mathbb{C}$ and not zero.

When I want to prove that $f$ has to look like above, I start with $f(z)=(az+b)/(cz+d)$, and try to obtain that $c=\bar{a}$ and $d=\bar{b}$, but the further I've reached is that $|a|=|c|$ and $|b|=|d|$, by evaluating $f$ at $0$ and $\infty$, taking the norm and making it equal to 1. Does anyone know what else I can do?

Thanks c:

Best Answer

So you found $|a|=|c|$ and $|b|=|d|$. Note that $f$ remains the same function if we replace $a,b,c,d$ with $\lambda a, \lambda b,\lambda c,\lambda d$ for some $\lambda\ne 0$. We can choose $\lambda$ such that $\lambda b=\overline{\lambda d}$, namely $\lambda=\sqrt{\frac {\overline d}b}$ (whereby incidentally $\lambda\in S^1$). In other words, we may assume wlog that $d=\overline b$. Now consider $\frac {az+b}{cz+\overline b}$ for small real $z$.

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