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A local degree-m holomorphic map has m nearby sheets

Statement

Let f:ΩC be nonconstant and holomorphic on a complex domain Ω, let aΩ, and put m=degaf. After shrinking around a, every nearby value other than f(a) has exactly m distinct preimages.

Precisely, for every neighbourhood N of a in Ω, there are an open neighbourhood V of a with VN and a real ρ>0 such that, for every w with 0<wf(a)<ρm, the equation f(z)=w has exactly m distinct solutions in V. The value f(a) has the single preimage a in V, counted with multiplicity m.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A nonconstant holomorphic function f:ΩC on a complex domain, a point aΩ, the positive natural m=degaf (Local degree of a nonconstant holomorphic map), and an arbitrary neighbourhood N of a in Ω. A biholomorphism is bijective with holomorphic inverse (Biholomorphic maps between complex domains).

[L1]

If f:ΩC is nonconstant and holomorphic on a complex domain, aΩ, and m=degaf, then near a there is a biholomorphic coordinate ϕ with ϕ(a)=0 and f(z)f(a)=ϕ(z)m (Local normal form of a nonconstant holomorphic map).

[L2]

Every nonzero complex number has exactly m distinct mth roots when m1, while 0 has the single mth root 0 (The n-th roots of a complex number and the n distinct roots of unity for every n1).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

Take a complex domain V0 and biholomorphic coordinate ϕ from [L1]. Since N is a neighbourhood of a, choose an open set O with aON. The set ϕ[V0O] is open and contains 0, so choose ρ>0 with D(0,ρ)ϕ[V0O] and put V:=ϕ1[D(0,ρ)]N.

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2.1

If 0<wf(a)<ρm, then [L2] gives exactly m distinct roots u of um=wf(a), and each satisfies u=wf(a)1/m<ρ.

step 1.1L2
3.1

Since ϕ is bijective, its inverse transports those roots to exactly m distinct points zV satisfying f(z)=w. At w=f(a), [L2] says the only coordinate root is 0, so the only point is a=ϕ1(0), and the normal form records multiplicity m.

step 1.1step 2.1L2given
4.1

Thus every noncentral value in the stated target disc has exactly m distinct preimages in V, while the central value has the one preimage of multiplicity m.

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