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Does there is one one continuous function from $\{z\in\mathbb{C}:|z|>1\}$ to $\{z\in\mathbb{C}:z\neq 0\}?$ I tried many examples but did't found. Is there any concept about existence or non-existence of such a function? Please help. Thanks a lot.

neelkanth
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For instance, $$f(z)=\frac{z}{\lvert z\rvert}\ln \lvert z\rvert$$ The idea: $\ln x$ maps bijectively $(1,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$. So we just identify $\Bbb C=\Bbb R^2$ and rescale along the radii. In fact, $\dfrac z{\lvert z\rvert}$ is the norm-1 vector in the direction of $z$.

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A slightly simpler map is $$ f(z)=\frac{z}{\lvert z\rvert}(\lvert z\rvert-1) $$ still a radial rescaling.

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