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Liouville’s theorem

1969; Mathematical Sciences Publishers; Volume: 28; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2140/pjm.1969.28.397

1945-5844

Robert Phillips,

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Liouville's theorem states that in Euclidean space of dimension greater than two, every conformal mapping must, by necessity, be an elementary transformation (i.e., a translation, a magnification, an orthogonal transformation, a reflection through reciprocal radii, or a combination of these transformations).This theorem was proven by R. Nevanlinna under the additional assumption that the mappings be at least four times differentiable.We show that a modified version of Nevanlinna's proof is still valid when the mappings are assumed to be only twice differentiable.Our methods are those of Nonstandard Analysis as developed by A. Robinson.