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This summer Herman Gluck and Weiqing Gu proved the last step in a process that took conformal maps between two complex spaces and related them to Volume Preserving Great Circle Fibrations of S3. These fibrations, which are non-intersecting flows, break down under certain conditions. We obtained the fibrations by applying the process to different conformal maps then calculated the angles where they intersect. This paper centers around the developments in the method for converting the conformal maps and finding the critical angles. Finally, the examples are included in their various stages of completeness.

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[pt] Esta dissertação visa mostrar que a construção de alguns mapas, chamados mapas conformes, pode ser expressa por funções complexas e essa relação será mostrada ao longo do texto. Inicialmente são apresentadas as coordenadas esféricas utilizadas por geógrafos e matemáticos e a construção de um mapeamento da esfera terrestre no plano, projeção estereográfica. Nas seções seguintes, são apresentadas: definições e propriedades das funções complexas com ênfase em suas interpretações geométricas; alguns mapas gerados pelas funções exponencial, logarítmica e trigonométricas complexas; a relação entre função exponencial e o Mapa de Mercator; algumas características de uma função elíptica; a relação entre uma função elíptica e o Mapa Pierce Quincuncial. / [en] This master thesis aims to show that the construction of some maps, called conformal maps, can be expressed by complex functions and this relation will be shown through the text. First it will be presented the spherical coordinates used for geographers and mathematicians, and the construction of a mapping of the terrestrial sphere in the plane, stereographic projection. In the following sections, they are presented: Definitions and properties of complex functions with emphasis on their geometric interpretations; Some maps generated by the exponential, logarithmic and complex trigonometric functions; The relationship between exponential function and the Mercator Map; Some characteristics of an elliptical function; The relationship between an elliptical function and the Quincuncial Pierce Map.