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The germ neighborhoods form a Hausdorff, second-countable Riemann-surface atlas
Statement
Let be the germ space of a complete analytic function. Then the sets of The germ space of a complete analytic function form a basis for a topology on . With that topology, the maps
form a holomorphic atlas. The resulting space is Hausdorff and second countable.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The germ space and its subsets .
The germ space, its basic candidate sets , and the projection are those of The germ space of a complete analytic function.
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).
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).
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).
Every open connected subset of is polygonally connected (For an open subset of , connectedness, path-connectedness and polygonal connectedness are equivalent).
Proof
Every point of is, by [L1], a germ coming from some function element , and then . So the family covers the germ space.
Suppose lies in . Then as well, so [L1] gives equality of the germs of and at . Hence there is a disc centered at with and on . For each this implies , so . Thus [L2] makes the family a basis for a topology on the germ space.
The space is Hausdorff. If and have , choose disjoint discs and ; then and are disjoint basis neighbourhoods. If but , choose discs and centered at so small that is connected. If and met, then and would agree as germs at some point of , and [L3] would force on that connected overlap, hence near , contradiction. So distinct germs have disjoint neighbourhoods, exactly as [L4] requires.
To prove second countability, let be the countable family of rational open discs contained in . For every finite chain of discs in with and , at most one branch of the complete analytic function is determined on by continuing the initial germ successively across that chain. So the basis sets arising from such rational-disc chains form a countable family.
On each basis element, is bijective with inverse . If , then step 1.2 gives a disc on which , so on the transition map is the identity. Therefore the charts are holomorphically compatible.
Let . By [L5], there is a polygonal path in from to . Cover its compact image by finitely many rational discs from that lie inside the function-element neighborhoods of one continuation chain to , and choose them in the order encountered along the path, with the last disc contained in and containing . The resulting rational-disc chain determines the same terminal branch on that last disc, so it produces a countable-basis neighbourhood of contained in . Thus the topology has a countable basis, and [L4] makes the germ space second countable.
Depends on
- The germ space of a complete analytic function
- 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
- Identity theorem for holomorphic functions
- 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
- For an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$, connectedness, path-connectedness and polygonal connectedness are equivalent
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Sources
- Curtis T. McMullen, Riemann Surfaces, Theorem 4.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Henry Wilton, Riemann Surfaces lecture notes, §8.2 (standard reference, not scraped)