Mobius transformations map generalized circles (circles and lines) to generalized circles, but they do not map the centres of circles to the centres of circles. They do however, preserve the inverse property of points, so that ifand
are inverse points with respect to a circle
then after being transformed by an extended mobius transformation
and
are inverse points with respect to
Proof
Ifand
are inverse points with respect to a generalized circle
then there must be an extended mobius transformation
that maps
to 0,
to
and
to the unit circle. Thus
maps
to 0,
to
and
to the unit circle. It follows that
and
are inverse points with respect to
On the other hand ifin
then
so once again
and
are inverse points with respect to