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The unit circle traversed three times has index at every interior point
Example
Let for . Then is a closed complex contour with trace the unit circle , and
The function is a continuous logarithm of along , its imaginary part is a continuous argument running from to , and recovers the index at the origin.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The contour on .
For , and , the contour on is a closed complex contour with for and for ; for its trace is (A circle traversed times has winding number inside and outside).
For a closed complex contour , a point off its trace and a continuous argument of along , (The winding number is the increment of a continuous argument divided by ).
A continuous logarithm of along is a continuous with for every , and its continuous argument is (Continuous logarithms and continuous arguments along a contour).
For real , (, , and ); for with real, (Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus).
Verification
Apply [L1] with , and : the contour is , it is a closed complex contour with trace , and for while for .
The map is continuous on and satisfies , so it is a continuous logarithm of along in the sense of [L4], with continuous argument by [L5].
The argument increment is , so [L2] gives , the same value step 1.1 assigns at the interior point .
Depends on
- A circle traversed $k$ times has winding number $k$ inside and $0$ outside
- The winding number is the increment of a continuous argument divided by $2\pi$
- The winding number of a closed contour about a point off its trace
- Continuous logarithms and continuous arguments along a contour
- $\exp(x+iy)=e^x(\cos y+i\sin y)$, $|\exp(x+iy)|=e^x$, and $e^{i\pi}+1=0$
- Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus
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Sources
- L. V. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., Ch. 4 §2.1 (standard reference, not scraped)