Paper 2, Section II, F
Part IB, 2013
Let and be disjoint circles in . Prove that there is a Möbius transformation which takes and to two concentric circles.
A collection of circles , for which
is tangent to and , where indices are ;
the circles are disjoint away from tangency points;
is called a constellation on . Prove that for any there is some pair and a constellation on made up of precisely circles. Draw a picture illustrating your answer.
Given a constellation on , prove that the tangency points for all lie on a circle. Moreover, prove that if we take any other circle tangent to and , and then construct for inductively so that is tangent to and , then we will have , i.e. the chain of circles will again close up to form a constellation.