Conformal mapping, a central concept in complex analysis, involves the transformation of one complex domain onto another while preserving local angles and shapes. This powerful tool has long been used ...
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We answer a question raised by M. Chuaqui, P. Duren, and B. Osgood by showing that a conformal mapping of a simply connected domain cannot take two circles onto two proper ellipses.