The Open Mapping Theorem for Analytic Functions and some applications

Abstract: This thesis deals with the Open Mapping Theorem for analytic functions on domains in the complex plane: A non-constant analytic function on an open subset of the complex plane is an open map. As applications of this fundamental theorem we study Schwarz’s Lemma and its consequences concerning the groups of conformal automorphisms of the unit disk and of the upper halfplane. In the last part of the thesis we indicate the first steps in hyperbolic geometry.