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Field lines

It isn't by accident that the Möbius transformations so far always generated a kind of "flow" of objects. The following example illustrates how a Möbius transformation induces a flow in the plane. Every arrow represents a relation between preimage and image.

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Möbius transformations from two fixed points $\hookleftarrow$ Contents $\hookrightarrow$ Möbius transformations and stereographic projection