Riccati Equation - Application To The Schwarzian Equation

Application To The Schwarzian Equation

An important application of the Riccati equation is to the 3rd order Schwarzian differential equation

which occurs in the theory of conformal mapping and univalent functions. In this case the ODEs are in the complex domain and differentiation is with respect to a complex variable. (The Schwarzian derivative has the remarkable property that it is invariant under Möbius transformations, i.e. whenever is non-zero.) The function satisfies the Riccati equation

By the above where is a solution of the linear ODE

Since, integration gives for some constant . On the other hand any other independent solution of the linear ODE has constant non-zero Wronskian which can be taken to be after scaling. Thus

so that the Schwarzian equation has solution

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