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The quotient C/Λ is a compact Riemann surface

Statement

Let Λ=Zω1+Zω2⊆C be a full complex lattice with oriented basis (ω1,ω2), and let TΛ=C/Λ carry the quotient topology of the class map π:C→TΛ, π(z)=[z] (Complex lattice and quotient torus). Then:

  1. the charts inverse to the injective restrictions of π to small balls form a holomorphic atlas on TΛ: each is a homeomorphism onto an open subset of C, and any two are compatible;
  2. TΛ is Hausdorff, second countable and compact, hence a compact Riemann surface;
  3. π is a holomorphic covering map.

The atlas depends only on Λ as a subset of C: neither the choice of a representative of a class nor the choice of the oriented basis (ω1,ω2) enters its definition.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A full complex lattice Λ=Zω1+Zω2 with ω1,ω2 real-linearly independent, the quotient TΛ=C/Λ with its quotient topology, and the class map π:C→TΛ.

[F1]

Λ is a subgroup of C with ω1,ω2 real-linearly independent; π is the quotient map onto TΛ, a subset of TΛ is open exactly when its preimage under π is open, π is a surjective group homomorphism with kernel Λ, and the structures depend on Λ alone, not on the oriented basis (Complex lattice and quotient torus).

[F2]

Under the identification C=R2, dC(z,w)=∣z−w∣ is exactly the Euclidean metric d2; convergence and continuity on C are the metric notions for dC (The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane).

[F3]

For all z,w∈C: ∣z∣≥0, ∣z∣=0 exactly when z=0, ∣zw∣=∣z∣ ∣w∣ and ∣z+w∣≤∣z∣+∣w∣ (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, zz‾=∣z∣2, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive).

[F4]

On Rn, n≥1, all norms are equivalent: any two norms give the same open sets, the same convergent sequences and the same continuous maps (For n≥1 all norms on Rn are equivalent).

[F5]

In Rn every closed box {x:ak≤xk≤bk} is compact, and a subset is compact exactly when it is closed and bounded (Heine-Borel in Rn: with the Euclidean metric a subset of Rn is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded, and the proof by bisection uses no choice principle; the same holds on the real line).

[F6]

The image of a compact set under a continuous map is compact; a continuous map on a nonempty compact space into R attains a maximum and a minimum; a continuous bijection from a compact space to a Hausdorff space is a homeomorphism (A continuous image of a compact space is compact; a continuous real-valued map on a nonempty compact space attains a maximum and a minimum; and a continuous bijection from a compact space to a Hausdorff space is a homeomorphism).

[F7]

For n≥1 the rational open boxes form a countable basis for the topology of Rn (Qn is a countable dense subset of Rn, and rational open boxes form a countable basis).

[F8]

The map Φ(a+bi)=(a,b) is a bijection C→R2; in particular every complex number is a+bi with real a,b (C is the real coordinate plane, with coordinate arithmetic).

[F9]

If a vector space has a spanning set with n elements, then every linearly independent subset is finite with at most n elements (If V has a spanning set with n elements, then every linearly independent subset of V is finite with at most n elements; in particular V has no linearly independent subset equinumerous with N).

[F10]

For every n≥1 the space Rn with its Euclidean topology is contractible: it is a nonempty convex subset of itself, and the straight-line formula H(x,t)=(1−t)x+tc contracts it to any chosen centre c (Every nonempty convex subset of Rn is contractible).

[F11]

Every nonempty contractible space is path-connected (Every nonempty contractible space is path-connected).

[F14]

A covering-space action of a group G on a space E is an action by homeomorphisms such that every point has an open neighbourhood U with gU∩U=∅ for every nonidentity g (Covering-space actions by disjoint translates of neighbourhoods).

[F16]

A chart on a space X is a homeomorphism from an open subset of X onto an open subset of C; two charts are compatible when both transition maps are holomorphic; a holomorphic atlas is a family of pairwise compatible charts covering X; a Riemann surface is a nonempty connected Hausdorff second-countable space with a holomorphic atlas (Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases).

[F17]

A homeomorphism is a continuous bijection whose inverse is continuous; an open map sends open sets to open sets (Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological).

[F18]

The single identity chart idC is a holomorphic atlas on C: it is a homeomorphism of C onto the open set C, so its domain covers C, and a family with one chart has no distinct pair of charts to test for compatibility. Since C is nonempty and connected (it is R2, hence contractible and path-connected by [F10] and [F11], hence connected by [F12]), Hausdorff (its topology is induced by the metric dC of [F2], and distinct points of a metric space are separated by disjoint balls, Distinct points of a metric space have disjoint balls around them) and second countable (the rational boxes of [F7] form a countable basis in the coordinates of [F2] and [F8]), the space C is a Riemann surface in the sense of [F16] (Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases).

No choice principle is used: the only selections are of a centre z of a ball and of representatives in a surjectivity argument, and the countability statements are proved without choice.

Proof

technique · direct
1.1F1F3algebra

Put A:=∣ω1∣2, B:=Re⁡(ω1ω2‾), C:=∣ω2∣2; then A,C>0 and expanding with [F3] gives ∣tω1+sω2∣2=At2+2Bts+Cs2 for all real t,s, while AC−B2=(Im⁡(ω1ω2‾))2>0, because Im⁡(ω1ω2‾)=0 would make ω2=(Re⁡(ω1ω2‾)/∣ω1∣2)ω1 a real multiple of ω1, contradicting real-linear independence.

1.2F1F8F9

The map φ(t,s):=tω1+sω2 is surjective: the list ω1,ω2 is real-linearly independent by [F1], and it must span C over R, since otherwise a complex number z∉span⁡R{ω1,ω2} would make ω1,ω2,z real-linearly independent (a relation with nonzero coefficient of z would exhibit z as a real combination of ω1,ω2, so that coefficient vanishes, and then the other two vanish), an independent set of three elements in a space spanned by the two-element set {1,i} by [F8], contradicting [F9].

1.3F2F3F4

The map φ:R2→C is continuous: by [F3], ∣φ(t,s)−φ(t′,s′)∣≤∣ω1∣ ∣t−t′∣+∣ω2∣ ∣s−s′∣≤2max⁡(∣ω1∣,∣ω2∣)max⁡(∣t−t′∣,∣s−s′∣), so φ is Lipschitz for the max norm on R2 and is continuous for it; by [F4] the max norm gives the same topology as d2, which is the topology of C by [F2].

1.4F1F2F10F11F12F13

TΛ is nonempty and connected: C is R2 by [F2], hence contractible by [F10], hence path-connected and connected by [F11] and [F12]; a continuous image of a connected space is connected by [F13], and π is continuous and surjective by [F1].

2.1step 1.1F1algebra

Completing the square in each variable gives ∣tω1+sω2∣2=A(t+BAs)2+AC−B2As2=C(s+BCt)2+AC−B2Ct2 for all real t,s, so with δ:=(AC−B2)/max⁡(A,C)>0 one has ∣tω1+sω2∣≥δmax⁡(∣t∣,∣s∣); hence every nonzero λ∈Λ satisfies ∣λ∣≥δ, and distinct λ,λ′∈Λ satisfy ∣λ−λ′∣≥δ.

2.2F5F6step 1.2step 1.3

TΛ is compact: the box [0,1]2 is compact in R2 by [F5], its image F:=φ([0,1]2)={tω1+sω2:0≤t,s≤1} is compact by [F6] and step 1.3, and π(F)=TΛ: by step 1.2 every z∈C is φ(t,s) for real t,s, and writing t=m+t′, s=n+s′ with m,n∈Z and t′,s′∈[0,1) by the division algorithm for real numbers gives z−(mω1+nω2)=φ(t′,s′)∈F with mω1+nω2∈Λ; hence TΛ is a continuous image of the compact set F, so it is compact by [F6].

3.1step 2.1F1F2algebra

Λ is uniformly discrete and closed in C: by step 2.1 the ball B(0,δ) contains no nonzero lattice point, so every point of Λ is isolated, and if λn∈Λ converges to z∈C then ∣λn−λm∣<δ for all large n,m, which forces λn=λm for all large n,m by the uniform gap, and then z=λN∈Λ; moreover, since ∣λ∣=∣mω1+nω2∣≥δmax⁡(∣m∣,∣n∣) for λ=mω1+nω2∈Λ, the lattice points in any bounded set have bounded parameters m,n and are therefore finite, so for p∉Λ the distance r:=dist⁡(p,Λ)=inf⁡λ∈Λ∣p−λ∣ is positive.

3.2F14step 2.1F2

The group Λ acts on C by translations λ⋅z:=z+λ, which are homeomorphisms of C by [F2], and this is a covering-space action in the sense of [F14]: for z∈C put U:=B(z,δ/2); if w∈U∩(λ+U) with λ∈Λ∖{0}, then w=λ+u with u∈U and ∣λ∣=∣w−u∣≤∣w−z∣+∣z−u∣<δ, contradicting step 2.1.

4.1F1F15step 3.2

By [F15] the orbit map of the action of step 3.2 is a covering map, and its orbit space is TΛ with orbit map π by [F1]; hence π is a covering map, so π is continuous and locally injective; moreover π is open, because for open W⊆C one has π−1(π(W))=⋃λ∈Λ(W+λ), a union of open translates, so π(W) is open in TΛ by [F1].

5.1F16F17step 3.1step 4.1

Take all open balls U⊆C on which π is injective. These include B(z,δ/2) for every z, since two points in such a ball with the same class differ by a lattice element of modulus <δ. For each such U, the restriction π∣U is continuous, open and bijective onto the open set π(U) by step 4.1. Thus φU:=(π∣U)−1:π(U)→U is a homeomorphism onto an open subset of C, hence a chart in the sense of [F16].

5.2step 3.1step 4.1

TΛ is Hausdorff: if [z]≠[w], then p:=w−z∉Λ, and with r=dist⁡(p,Λ)>0 from step 3.1 the open sets π(B(z,r/2)) and π(B(w,r/2)) are disjoint, since a∈B(z,r/2) and b∈B(w,r/2) with π(a)=π(b) would give b−a∈Λ and ∣p−(b−a)∣≤∣w−b∣+∣z−a∣<r, contradicting r=dist⁡(p,Λ).

5.3F1F2F7step 4.1

TΛ is second countable: by [F7] and [F2] the topology of C has a countable basis B of rational boxes, and {π(B):B∈B} is a countable family of open subsets of TΛ by step 4.1; it is a basis, because for open W⊆TΛ and x∈W one picks z∈π−1(x), then a box B∈B with z∈B⊆π−1(W) (possible since π−1(W) is open by [F1]), and then x∈π(B)⊆W.

6.1F16step 2.1step 5.1

The domains of the charts of step 5.1 cover TΛ, since the family includes the charts from B(z,δ/2) for every z∈C, so the charts φz of step 5.1 form an atlas; any two are compatible: for charts φU,φV of this family put Ω:=φU(π(U)∩π(V)), an open subset of C, and for u∈Ω let v(u):=φV(π(u)), so that u−v(u)∈Λ; fixing u0∈Ω and λ0:=u0−v(u0), continuity of u↦v(u) (a composite of the continuous maps π, φV) and step 2.1 give a neighbourhood of u0 on which ∣(u−v(u))−λ0∣<δ, and since (u−v(u))−λ0∈Λ and all nonzero lattice elements have modulus ≥δ by step 2.1, there u−v(u)=λ0; hence φV∘φU−1 equals the translation u↦u−λ0 near each point of its open domain Ω, and is holomorphic.

6.2F16F18step 5.1

π is holomorphic: use the identity chart on C from [F18]. For every chart φU of step 5.1, its expression φU∘π is the identity on U, hence holomorphic. The balls in that family cover C, so [F16] gives holomorphy of π at every point.

7.1F1F16step 5.1step 6.1∎

Collecting: the charts of step 5.1 are pairwise compatible by step 6.1 and cover TΛ; TΛ is nonempty and connected (step 1.4), Hausdorff (step 5.2) and second countable (step 5.3), so TΛ is a Riemann surface by [F16], and it is compact by step 2.2; π is a covering map by step 4.1 and holomorphic by step 6.2, so it is a holomorphic covering map. The construction uses only the set Λ and the metric and quotient structures attached to it: a change of representatives of a class does not change π, and the family of all open balls on which π is injective is determined by Λ alone. The basis-dependent constant δ only proves that this family covers the quotient; it does not restrict the family defining the atlas. Thus changing the oriented basis leaves this atlas unchanged.

The completion of the square in step 2.1 is the only place where the real-linear independence of the basis is used quantitatively: it produces the uniform gap δ that simultaneously isolates the lattice points, forces the restrictions of π to be injective, and separates classes for the Hausdorff property. The rounding argument in step 2.2 is the classical statement that a fundamental parallelogram is a fundamental domain.

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