conformal transformation

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a complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person ...
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Recall that a zone is characterized up toconformaltransformationby one number, which we call the modulus.
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One way to compute it is to send the two boundary spheres by aconformaltransformationinto concentric position.
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The boundary spheres of the maximal separating zone can be mapped into a concentric position by aconformaltransformation.
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Tn most of the numerical schemes the solid boundaires were dealt with by means ofconformaltransformation, where necessary, and image vortices.
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A "specialconformaltransformation" is the composition of a reflection and an inversion in a sphere.
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This sends circles to circles and lines, and is moreover aconformaltransformation.
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A furtherconformaltransformationfrom the sphere to the plane gives a conformal double projection from the ellipsoid to the plane.
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The effect on the flow lines of the corresponding one-parameter subgroups is to transform the pattern seen in the examples by someconformaltransformation.
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Conformal transformations are ones that preserve angles, such as rotation and translation.
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Uniqueness follows from standard properties of conformal transformations.
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These rigid body transformations, combined with rescaling, make up all invertible conformal transformations.
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The extension includes special conformal transformations and dilations.
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The group of conformal transformations of the n-sphere is generated by the inversions in circles.
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However, note that scale transformations are included in conformal transformations, in general: the latter including additional symmetry generators associated with special conformal transformations.
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This variant of conformal transformations were called spherical wave transformations by him.
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These transformations are subgroups of general 1-1 conformal transformations on space-time.
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This allows all conformal transformations to be done as rotations and reflections and is covariant, extending incidence relations of projective geometry to circles and spheres.
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Special conformal transformations arise from translation of spacetime and inversion.
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Conformal field theory is often studied in two dimensions where there is an infinite-dimensional group of local conformal transformations, described by the holomorphic functions.
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