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The Holomorphic Inverse Function Theorem and Weierstrass Preparation — Examples
1 · Prerequisites
- Absolute and Conditional Convergence; Rearrangement; Products
- Analyticity of Holomorphic Functions; Liouville and Morera
- Arc Length and Rectifiable Curves
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Bounded Variation and the Riemann–Stieltjes Integral
- Compactness
- Compactness in Metric Spaces
- Completeness, Completion, and Uniform Continuity
- Complex Differentiability and the Cauchy–Riemann Equations
- Complex Power Series and Analytic Functions
- Connectedness
- Construction of the Natural Numbers
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Contour Integration
- Cosets, Index and Lagrange's Theorem
- Countability and Uncountability
- Determinants of Matrices over a Commutative Ring
- Divisibility, Euclidean Domains, Principal Ideal Domains and Unique Factorisation
- Filters and Ultrafilters
- Finite Counting, Factorials and Binomial Coefficients
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Function Space Topologies and the Exponential Law
- Fundamental Trigonometric Identities
- Goursat's Theorem and Cauchy's Theorem in a Convex Domain
- Group Actions, Orbits, Stabilisers and Cayley's Theorem
- Holomorphic Functions of Several Complex Variables
- Ideals, Quotient Rings and the Isomorphism Theorems for Rings
- Isolated Singularities and Laurent Series
- Limits of Real Functions
- limsup, liminf, and Subsequential Limits
- Line Integrals and the Gradient Theorem
- Linear Independence, Bases and Dimension
- Linear Transformations, Rank-Nullity and Quotient Spaces
- Matrices, the Matrix of a Linear Map, and Change of Basis
- Metric Spaces
- Mixed Partials, Taylor Formulae, and Extrema
- Monotone Functions, Discontinuities, and Continuity Sets
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Normal Subgroups and Quotient Groups
- Order, Zorn's Lemma, and the Axiom of Choice
- Partitions of Unity and Paracompactness
- pi: the Equivalent Characterizations
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Power Series and Real-Analytic Functions
- Properties of the Integral and the Working FTC
- Relations, Functions, and Quotients
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Separation Axioms: the Hierarchy
- Sequences and Limits
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- Series: Convergence and the Nonnegative Tests
- Simple Field Extensions and the Construction of the Complex Numbers
- Sine, Cosine, and the Definition of Pi
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- Suprema and Infima
- Symmetric Groups, Cycle Decomposition and the Sign Homomorphism
- The Argument Principle and Rouché's Theorem
- The Cantor Set, Baire Category, and Measure Zero in ℝ
- The Complex Exponential and Euler's Formula
- The Derivative and the Mean Value Theorems
- The Exponential Function
- The Field of Fractions and Localisation
- The Fundamental Theorems of Calculus
- The Holomorphic Inverse Function Theorem and Weierstrass Preparation
- The Identity Theorem, the Maximum Principle and the Open Mapping Theorem
- The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems
- The Logarithm and General Powers
- The Residue Theorem and the Evaluation of Real Integrals
- The Riemann Integral: Definition and Integrability
- The Topology of Euclidean Space
- The Total Derivative in ℝᵐ → ℝⁿ
- The Winding Number and the Global Cauchy Theorem
- The ZFC Axioms and the Basic Set Constructions
- Topological Spaces and Continuity
- Topology of ℝ
- Vector Spaces, Linear Subspaces, Span and Direct Sums
2 · Summary
The companion page keeps the local theorems concrete. It shows an explicit prepared factor, an explicit linear shear making a nonregular germ regular, the actual quotient and remainder in a simple Weierstrass division, and a direct implicit-function graph near a nonsingular point.
Its counterexamples are structural rather than ornamental. The map keeps the complex Jacobian invertible while destroying global injectivity, and the germ shows that the coordinate-change lemma is genuinely needed before preparation can start.
3 · Logical flowchart
4 · Definitions, theorems and proofs
None yet.
5 · Examples, counterexamples and false statements
prepares to the Weierstrass polynomial
Example
For , the Weierstrass preparation in the variable is
So the prepared polynomial is exactly , and the unit is the constant .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The germ at the origin.
A regular germ factors as a unit times a Weierstrass polynomial (Weierstrass preparation theorem).
Verification
The slice has a simple zero at , so is regular in of order .
The identity already has the required form: the factor is a unit and is monic in with lower coefficient vanishing at the origin. Thus [L1] produces exactly this preparation.
is not regular in at the origin
Statement refuted
Refuted claim: the germ is regular in the variable at the origin.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The germ .
Regularity in requires the slice to have a finite exact order of vanishing in the remaining variable (Regular holomorphic germs in the last variable).
Counterexample
On the slice one has for every . So the last-variable restriction vanishes identically rather than to a finite exact order.
Step 1.1 contradicts the requirement in [L1]. Therefore the germ is not regular in at the origin.
A linear shear makes regular in
Example
Let . Then
and along the slice this becomes . So the sheared germ is regular in of order .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The shear .
Regularity in the last variable is the exact-order condition of Regular holomorphic germs in the last variable.
Every nonzero germ can be made regular after an invertible complex-linear change of coordinates (After a linear coordinate change, every nonzero germ is regular in the last variable).
Verification
Direct substitution gives
Setting in step 1.1 yields the slice , which has exact order at the origin. So [L1] makes the transformed germ regular in of order , exhibiting the coordinate-change mechanism promised by [L2].
Dividing by the Weierstrass polynomial
Example
Let . Dividing the germ by gives
So the unique quotient is and the unique remainder is the degree- polynomial .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The dividend and divisor .
Weierstrass division gives a unique quotient and a unique remainder of -degree (Weierstrass division theorem).
Verification
The identity is immediate.
The remainder has degree in , hence degree . Therefore [L1] identifies this displayed identity as the unique Weierstrass division of by .
Near , the equation is a holomorphic graph
Example
For
the equation defines as a holomorphic function of near .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The holomorphic function and the point .
The holomorphic implicit function theorem applies when the derivative in the dependent variable is invertible (The holomorphic implicit function theorem).
Verification
One has and
Therefore [L1] yields neighbourhoods of and and a unique holomorphic function such that for all nearby . So near the zero set is the holomorphic graph .
The map has invertible complex Jacobian everywhere and is not injective
Statement refuted
Refuted claim: a holomorphic map with everywhere-invertible complex Jacobian must be injective.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The map .
The complex Jacobian is computed from the complex differential (Holomorphic maps and the complex Jacobian matrix).
The complex exponential satisfies , and (, and the complex exponential extends the real exponential, , , and ).
Counterexample
The complex Jacobian of is so for every .
By [L2], , so Thus distinct points have the same image, and is not injective despite step 1.1.
FALSE: an everywhere-invertible complex Jacobian forces global injectivity
Statement
False claim: if the complex Jacobian of a holomorphic self-map is invertible at every point, then the map is globally injective.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The claim above.
The map has invertible complex Jacobian at every point and is not injective (The map has invertible complex Jacobian everywhere and is not injective).
Refutation
Fact [L1] provides a holomorphic map whose complex Jacobian determinant is never zero.
The same fact [L1] also shows that this map identifies and . So the claimed global injectivity conclusion fails.
FALSE: the holomorphic inverse function theorem is global
Statement
False claim: the holomorphic inverse function theorem makes a map with everywhere-invertible complex Jacobian globally invertible.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The false claim above.
The several-variable holomorphic inverse function theorem is local: it produces biholomorphic neighbourhoods around each point (The holomorphic inverse function theorem in several complex variables).
The exponential counterexample has invertible complex Jacobian everywhere and is not injective (The map has invertible complex Jacobian everywhere and is not injective).
Refutation
Fact [L1] says that an invertible complex Jacobian gives a local biholomorphism near each point, not a global inverse on the whole domain.
Fact [L2] realizes exactly that gap: the map satisfies the local hypothesis everywhere, yet it is not injective and therefore has no global inverse. So the claim is false.
FALSE: every nonzero germ is regular in the last variable without a coordinate change
Statement
False claim: every nonzero holomorphic germ is already regular in the last variable, without any coordinate change.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The false claim above.
The germ is not regular in at the origin ( is not regular in at the origin).
A linear shear can nevertheless make that same germ regular in (A linear shear makes regular in ).
Refutation
Fact [L1] gives a specific nonzero germ that fails the claimed property in the original coordinates.
Fact [L2] shows that the coordinate-change lemma is doing real work rather than decorating an already-true statement. Therefore the claim is false.
FALSE: arbitrary factorizations by a Weierstrass polynomial are unique without unit and degree conditions
Statement
False claim: For a regular germ , a factorization is unique whenever is a Weierstrass polynomial, even if need not be a unit and the degree of need not equal the regular order of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The germ .
The genuine Weierstrass preparation theorem factors a regular germ as a unit times a Weierstrass polynomial (Weierstrass preparation theorem).
Both and are Weierstrass polynomials in the variable (Weierstrass polynomials in the last variable).
Refutation
The factorization is a genuine preparation by [L1].
If neither the unit condition nor the degree condition is retained, then also is allowed, and [L2] says the second factor is a Weierstrass polynomial of degree . This differs from the genuine degree- preparation in step 1.1, so the relaxed factorization is not unique.
FALSE: a nonconstant scalar holomorphic function in dimension at least two can have an isolated zero
Statement
False claim: in complex dimension at least two, a nonconstant holomorphic scalar function can have an isolated zero.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The false claim above.
A nonzero holomorphic scalar function on a domain in with has no isolated zero (A nonzero holomorphic hypersurface in complex dimension at least two has no isolated points).
Refutation
Fact [L1] states the exact negation of the claimed phenomenon.
Therefore such an isolated zero cannot occur, and the claim is false.
Sources
- Jiří Lebl, Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables, Section 6.2
- Jiří Lebl, Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables, Exercise 6.2.5
- Jaap Korevaar and Jan Wiegerinck, Several Complex Variables, Section 4.2
- Jiří Lebl, Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables, Section 1.6
- Jiří Lebl, Guide to Cultivating Complex Analysis, Section 4.6
- Jiří Lebl, Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables, Section 5.2