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Cauchy's theorem for a null-homologous cycle
Statement
Let be open, let be holomorphic, and let be a complex chain which is a cycle, with trace in and null-homologous in . Then
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An open , a holomorphic , and a cycle with which is null-homologous in ; the plane is read as through as the Euclidean plane and as a normed real algebra: what the identification preserves.
Under the hypotheses above, for every (Cauchy's integral formula for a null-homologous cycle).
Products of functions complex differentiable at a point are complex differentiable there, and constants have derivative (Linearity, product, reciprocal, and quotient rules for complex derivatives); a complex differentiable function is continuous (Complex differentiability at a point implies continuity there).
, and for (Integration over a complex chain and the index of a chain); a chain is a finite list of integer-weighted complex contours and its trace is the union of the with (Complex chains, their traces, and cycles).
A cycle with trace in is null-homologous in when for every (Null-homologous cycles and homologous cycles in an open set).
Complex line integrals are linear in the integrand (Complex line integrals are linear in the integrand).
A compact subset is closed and bounded (A compact subset of a metric space is closed and bounded); a finite union of compact subsets is compact (A closed subspace of a compact space is compact, and a finite union of compact subspaces is compact); a continuous image of a compact subset is compact (The image of a compact metric space under a continuous map is compact, and so is the image of any compact subset); a closed bounded interval is compact (Heine-Borel in : with the Euclidean metric a subset of is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line).
A topological space is connected exactly when its only clopen subsets are the empty set and the whole space (For a topological space the following agree: no separation exists, the only clopen subsets are and , and every continuous map to the two-point discrete space is constant).
For , is polygonally connected and connected ( is polygonally connected, connected, locally path-connected and locally connected).
A set is closed exactly when its complement is open (The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement), and a subset is bounded when it is empty or lies inside a ball (Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space).
Proof
If then , so by [L3] every is zero or the list is empty and ; assume from now on that .
The trace is a finite union of continuous images of compact intervals by [L3], hence compact by [L6], and therefore closed and bounded by [L6].
There is a point . Indeed , so would force ; by step 1.2 that set is closed, and is open, so would be a nonempty clopen subset of which is bounded by step 1.2 and [L9], hence different from . That contradicts [L7] and [L8], since is connected and its only clopen subsets are and . The trace is not asserted to have empty interior anywhere in this argument.
Fix such a and put for , which is holomorphic on by [L2] and satisfies . Since is null-homologous in by the hypothesis and [L4], [L1] applies to at the point and gives .
On the trace , so there, and the integrand of step 3.1 is itself; hence by [L3] and [L5].
Depends on
- Cauchy's integral formula for a null-homologous cycle
- Linearity, product, reciprocal, and quotient rules for complex derivatives
- Integration over a complex chain and the index of a chain
- Null-homologous cycles and homologous cycles in an open set
- Complex line integrals are linear in the integrand
- A compact subset of a metric space is closed and bounded
- A closed subspace of a compact space is compact, and a finite union of compact subspaces is compact
- The image of a compact metric space under a continuous map is compact, and so is the image of any compact subset
- Heine-Borel in $\mathbb{R}^n$: with the Euclidean metric a subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line
- For a topological space the following agree: no separation exists, the only clopen subsets are $\varnothing$ and $X$, and every continuous map to the two-point discrete space is constant
- $\mathbb{R}^n$ is polygonally connected, connected, locally path-connected and locally connected
- $\mathbb C=\mathbb R[x]/(x^2+1)$ as the Euclidean plane and as a normed real algebra: what the identification preserves
- Complex chains, their traces, and cycles
- The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement
- Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space
- Complex differentiability at a point implies continuity there
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Sources
- L. V. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., Ch. 4 §4.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. Lebl, Complex Analysis, Ch. 4 §4.2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- M. Weber, Complex Analysis (Indiana University), Ch. 4 §4.1 (standard reference, not scraped)