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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