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A single point is conformally removable
Statement
Every finite subset is globally conformally removable: if a homeomorphism is conformal on , then is a Möbius transformation. In particular, every singleton is conformally removable. Moreover, , so finite sets illustrate the zero-length case.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A finite set and a homeomorphism conformal off .
A compact set is globally conformally removable exactly when every sphere homeomorphism conformal on its complement is Möbius. (Conformal removability of compact sets)
Every Möbius transformation is a biholomorphism of the Riemann sphere. (Möbius transformations of the Riemann sphere, Every Möbius transformation is a biholomorphism of the Riemann sphere)
A function holomorphic on a punctured disc extends holomorphically across its centre if it is bounded on some punctured neighborhood; the extension value is the finite limit. (Characterizations of removable singularities, Isolated singularities: removable, poles, and essential singularities)
Holomorphy on the sphere is defined in its standard finite and reciprocal charts, and holomorphy of a map between Riemann surfaces is chartwise. (The standard holomorphic charts on the Riemann sphere, with holomorphy and poles at infinity, Holomorphic maps and meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces)
An injective holomorphic map on a complex domain is biholomorphic onto its open image. (An injective holomorphic map has no critical point and is biholomorphic onto its image, A complex domain is a nonempty connected open subset of , Biholomorphic maps between complex domains)
Every biholomorphic self-map of the sphere is Möbius. (Every biholomorphic self-map of the Riemann sphere is Möbius)
Hausdorff measure is defined by small-diameter covers and is monotone under inclusion; the chordal metric is a metric on the sphere. (Unnormalised Hausdorff measure, The chordal metric on the Riemann sphere)
Proof
If , is already holomorphic on the whole sphere. Otherwise fix an arbitrary , put , and choose Möbius maps by when , when , and when , when ; then is a sphere homeomorphism, holomorphic off the finite set , with .
By continuity of at and , choose so that and on the map takes values in the finite target chart and . Thus the scalar chart expression is holomorphic on , bounded there, and has limit at the puncture.
Apply [F3] to extend holomorphically across with value . The extension agrees with the original map by continuity, so is holomorphic at as a sphere map. Since and are biholomorphic, is holomorphic at the arbitrary point .
Repeating the pointwise argument for every shows that is holomorphic on the whole sphere. In any source and target charts, a sufficiently small connected chart neighborhood gives an injective holomorphic map; [F5] makes its local inverse holomorphic. These local inverses are the chart expressions of the global inverse homeomorphism, so is biholomorphic.
By [F6], is Möbius; [F1] therefore says that the finite compact set is globally conformally removable. This includes the singleton case, and the empty-set case from step 1.1.
If , its Hausdorff measure is zero by the empty cover. If has points, then for every cover each point by a chordal ball of radius ; each ball has diameter at most and the sum of the diameters is less than . By [F7] and the definition of , .
Depends on
- Conformal removability of compact sets
- Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological
- Möbius transformations of the Riemann sphere
- Every Möbius transformation is a biholomorphism of the Riemann sphere
- Characterizations of removable singularities
- Isolated singularities: removable, poles, and essential singularities
- The standard holomorphic charts on the Riemann sphere, with holomorphy and poles at infinity
- Holomorphic maps and meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces
- A complex domain is a nonempty connected open subset of $\mathbb C$
- An injective holomorphic map has no critical point and is biholomorphic onto its image
- Biholomorphic maps between complex domains
- Every biholomorphic self-map of the Riemann sphere is Möbius
- Unnormalised Hausdorff measure
- The chordal metric on the Riemann sphere
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Sources
- Mikhail Lyubich, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials, vol. I (standard reference, not scraped)
- Malik Younsi, On removable sets for holomorphic functions, EMS Surveys in Mathematical Sciences 2 (2015), 219–254 (standard reference, not scraped)