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The germ neighborhoods form a Hausdorff, second-countable Riemann-surface atlas

Statement

Let R(ξ0,Ω) be the germ space of a complete analytic function. Then the sets N(f,U) of The germ space of a complete analytic function form a basis for a topology on R(ξ0,Ω). With that topology, the maps

ϕf,U:N(f,U)U,ϕf,U([f]z)=z,

form a holomorphic atlas. The resulting space is Hausdorff and second countable.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The germ space R(ξ0,Ω) and its subsets N(f,U).

[L1]

The germ space, its basic candidate sets N(f,U), and the projection p([f]z)=z are those of The germ space of a complete analytic function.

[L2]

A family is a basis exactly when it covers the set and every point of an intersection of two members lies in a third member inside that intersection (A family is a basis for a unique topology iff it covers the set and every point of an intersection of two members lies in a member inside that intersection; finite intersections of any subbasis form a basis).

[L3]

If two holomorphic functions agree on a set with an accumulation point in a complex domain, then they agree on that whole domain (Identity theorem for holomorphic functions).

[L4]

Hausdorff means that distinct points admit disjoint open neighbourhoods, and second countable means that the topology has a countable basis (Hausdorff space: distinct points have disjoint open neighbourhoods; every metrizable space is Hausdorff and the indiscrete topology on two points is not, Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology).

Proof

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1.1

Every point of R(ξ0,Ω) is, by [L1], a germ [f]z coming from some function element (f,U), and then [f]zN(f,U). So the family {N(f,U)} covers the germ space.

L1
1.2

Suppose ξ=[f]z lies in N(f,U)N(g,V). Then ξ=[g]z as well, so [L1] gives equality of the germs of f and g at z. Hence there is a disc D centered at z with DUV and f=g on D. For each wD this implies [f]w=[g]w, so N(f,D)=N(g,D)N(f,U)N(g,V). Thus [L2] makes the family {N(f,U)} a basis for a topology on the germ space.

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1.3

The space is Hausdorff. If [f]z and [g]w have zw, choose disjoint discs Dzz and Dww; then N(f,Dz) and N(g,Dw) are disjoint basis neighbourhoods. If z=w but [f]z[g]z, choose discs DfU and DgV centered at z so small that DfDg is connected. If N(f,Df) and N(g,Dg) met, then f and g would agree as germs at some point of DfDg, and [L3] would force f=g on that connected overlap, hence near z, contradiction. So distinct germs have disjoint neighbourhoods, exactly as [L4] requires.

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1.4

To prove second countability, let D be the countable family of rational open discs contained in Ω. For every finite chain D0,,Dm of discs in D with a0D0 and Dj1Dj, at most one branch of the complete analytic function is determined on Dm by continuing the initial germ successively across that chain. So the basis sets arising from such rational-disc chains form a countable family.

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2.1

On each basis element, ϕf,U is bijective with inverse z[f]z. If N(f,U)N(g,V), then step 1.2 gives a disc DUV on which f=g, so on ϕf,U(N(f,D))=D the transition map ϕg,Vϕf,U1:DD is the identity. Therefore the charts are holomorphically compatible.

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3.1

Let [f]zN(f,U). By [L5], there is a polygonal path in Ω from a0 to z. Cover its compact image by finitely many rational discs from D that lie inside the function-element neighborhoods of one continuation chain to [f]z, and choose them in the order encountered along the path, with the last disc contained in U and containing z. The resulting rational-disc chain determines the same terminal branch on that last disc, so it produces a countable-basis neighbourhood of [f]z contained in N(f,U). Thus the topology has a countable basis, and [L4] makes the germ space second countable.

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