I'm trying to derive the transfer function for Chebyshev filter. $$|H(\Omega)|^2=\frac{1}{\sqrt{(1+\epsilon^2T_n^2(\frac{\Omega}{\Omega_c})}}$$ where $$T_n(x)=cos(Ncos^{-1}(x)) \forall x \le 1$$ $$T_n(x)=cosh(Ncosh^{-1}(x)) \forall x \ge 1$$ $$H(s)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{(1+\epsilon^2T_n^2(\frac{s}{j\Omega_c}))}}$$ To calculate the poles I made the following substituion which looks like this: $$cos^{-1}(\frac{s}{j\Omega_c})=\alpha + j \beta$$ So $$s=j\Omega_c(\cos\alpha \cosh\beta - j \sin\alpha \sinh\beta)$$ $$s=\Omega_c \sin\alpha \sinh\beta + j \Omega_c \cos\alpha \cosh\beta$$ where $\alpha=\frac{(2k-1)\pi}{2N}$ and $\beta = \frac{1}{N} \sinh^{-1}{\frac{1}{\epsilon}}$ But with this substitution my poles yield to be stability or produce an ambiguity on the stability end. But if I make the substituion as $$cos^{-1}(\frac{s}{j\Omega_c})=\alpha - j \beta$$ poles seem stable. Can someone help me with this. is my substitution wrong?