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The torus is biholomorphic to its Weierstrass cubic
Statement
Let be a full complex lattice with oriented basis (Complex lattice and quotient torus), let be its Weierstrass function and its derivative (Weierstrass p function), let be its discriminant and let be the associated projective cubic, with the point at infinity (projective space points). Then:
- is nonsingular in the Jacobian-rank sense of Local holomorphic charts on nonsingular complex algebraic curves at every point, and is its unique point at infinity;
- the formula defines a holomorphic map on (The quotient is a compact Riemann surface), which extends to a holomorphic map with ;
- this extended is bijective;
- is a biholomorphism: it is holomorphic, bijective, and its inverse is holomorphic too. In particular is a connected compact Riemann surface, being a continuous image of the connected compact torus.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A full complex lattice with oriented basis , its torus with class map , the Weierstrass function and its derivative , the invariants , , the discriminant , the half-periods , , , the values , and the projective cubic with its point .
is a subgroup of whose generators are real-linearly independent, carries the quotient topology of , and is a surjective group homomorphism with kernel ; the torus and its structure depend on the set alone (Complex lattice and quotient torus).
is a holomorphic covering map and is a compact Riemann surface, hence nonempty, connected, Hausdorff and second countable; a chart on a space is a homeomorphism onto an open subset of and a holomorphic atlas is a covering family of pairwise compatible charts (The quotient is a compact Riemann surface, Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases).
The series of [F3] converges absolutely and normally on , independently of any enumeration. The function is holomorphic on , even and -periodic, and at each it has a double pole with principal part and no other poles. Moreover on , this series converging normally, and is odd and -periodic with a pole of order at each lattice point and no other poles (Normal convergence, parity and periodicity of the Weierstrass p function).
is the pullback of the meromorphic function characterized by , and a meromorphic function on pulls back to a -elliptic function; in particular a value of depends only on the class of its argument, and exactly for (Elliptic function for a lattice).
on , with and absolutely convergent and , (Weierstrass cubic differential equation).
The torus form has degree two; for one has if and only if or modulo ; the critical points of are exactly the class and the three distinct nonzero half-period classes , with distinct branch values ; and with the zero at each of order one. In particular every finite value of is attained: for every the fibre has total ramification index two, so it is nonempty (Degree two of ℘ and its four branch points, Ramification index, ramification order and branch value).
; the polynomial has the three distinct roots ; and the cubic is nonsingular in the Jacobian-rank sense at every point, including its unique point at infinity (Nonvanishing of the lattice discriminant).
with exactly when for some , classes written ; the standard affine charts are given by the free coordinates. In the chart the coordinates are , and a homogeneous equation reads there; in the chart the coordinates are , and reads (projective space points, Local holomorphic charts on nonsingular complex algebraic curves).
If a plane curve is near the zero set of one holomorphic function of two variables with nonzero complex gradient at , then after permuting the two coordinates the curve agrees near with a holomorphic graph over the first coordinate, and that free coordinate is a local parameter of the curve; the projection onto that coordinate is a homeomorphism of the curve neighbourhood onto a plane domain, and transitions between such local parameters are holomorphic (Local holomorphic charts on nonsingular complex algebraic curves).
(a) If a function is holomorphic on a complex domain and , then restricts to a biholomorphism between complex domains contained in neighbourhoods of and of (Holomorphic inverse function theorem and local-degree criterion, Biholomorphic maps between complex domains). (b) A map is open when images of open sets are open; a bijection is a homeomorphism exactly when it is open and continuous, and in particular a continuous open bijection is a homeomorphism (Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological): for open in its domain, the preimage of under its inverse is its open image, which proves continuity of the inverse.
A holomorphic map of Riemann surfaces is one whose chart expressions are holomorphic, and this condition is independent of the atlases chosen; a holomorphic map is continuous, and holomorphy is a local condition, so a map is holomorphic once every point has a pair of charts in which its chart expression is holomorphic (Holomorphic maps and meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces).
A function holomorphic and bounded on a punctured disc extends holomorphically to the centre; a locally uniform limit of holomorphic functions is holomorphic; a holomorphic function with a zero of order at factors as with ; a holomorphic function equals its Taylor series near each point; and derivatives are linear and satisfy the product and chain rules (Characterizations of removable singularities, Locally uniform limits of holomorphic functions are holomorphic and their derivatives converge locally uniformly, The order of a zero is the exponent in its local holomorphic factorization, A holomorphic function equals its Taylor series throughout the largest centred disc in its domain, Linearity, product, reciprocal, and quotient rules for complex derivatives, The chain rule for complex derivatives).
For all one has with only for , , and (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive); the image of a connected set under a continuous map is connected, and the image of a compact set under a continuous map is compact (A continuous image of a connected space is connected, and connectedness is a topological property, 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).
A space is second countable when it admits an at most countable basis, a basis being a family of open sets such that every point of every open set lies in a member of the family contained in that open set (Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology, Basis and subbasis for a topology, and the topology generated by a family of sets); a Riemann surface is a nonempty connected Hausdorff second-countable space with a holomorphic atlas (Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases).
Proof
(Uniform gap and finiteness in bounded sets.) Put , , . Then , and expanding with the modulus laws of [F14] gives for real . Completing the square in the two variables gives and symmetrically for , so with one has . Here : by [F14] it equals , and would make a real multiple of , contradicting real-linear independence in [F1]. Hence every nonzero has , and every set is finite, since it is contained in the image of the finite set of integer pairs with .
(Well-definedness and holomorphic ambient coordinates.) For , the triple has nonzero third coordinate, so is a point of the affine chart of [F9]. Periodicity of both functions in [F4] gives , so is well defined on . In a torus chart obtained by lifting to a small ball ([F2]), its ambient coordinate functions are and , both holomorphic by [F4]. Once the image is placed in the curve, its local parameter from [F10] is one of these ambient coordinates, which verifies holomorphy as a map into the curve by [F12].
(The function at .) Work on the disc from step 1.1, which contains no other lattice point. The double pole with principal part in [F4] means that extends holomorphically across . Evenness and [F13] give and . Substituting and into [F6], the coefficient of on the left is , whereas on the right it is ; equivalently, multiply by and compare the Taylor coefficient of . Thus , so , and .
(The image lies in .) For the point satisfies, by [F6], with ; hence .
(Expansions at the origin.) From step 2.1, near one has and, differentiating with the rules of [F13], with , so . Hence on a punctured neighbourhood of the quotients and satisfy and , so in particular ; both are holomorphic and bounded on a punctured disc around , so by [F13] they extend holomorphically to with and .
(Extension to .) Let be a ball around on which is injective, and use the torus chart ([F2]) around , so that . On the target side use the chart of [F9] with coordinates ; the point has coordinates . For the coordinate functions of are and (reading the homogeneous coordinates of step 1.2 in the chart ), and by step 3.1 these extend holomorphically to with values . Hence the formula extends to a map on all of , and by [F12] this extension is holomorphic at : the chart expression is holomorphic at .
(Local biholomorphy at .) Apply [F10] to : this is the equation of in the chart by [F9], and , so the curve is near the graph of a holomorphic with , and is a local parameter on at , a homeomorphism of a neighbourhood of in onto a plane domain. The chart expression of in the torus chart of step 4.1 and this local parameter is , which by step 3.1 equals ; it is holomorphic at with derivative , so by F11 it restricts to a biholomorphism between complex domains contained in neighbourhoods of and of . Composing with the two charts, which are homeomorphisms by [F2] and [F10], the map carries a neighbourhood of homeomorphically onto an open subset of , and its inverse on that piece is holomorphic.
(Injectivity.) Let with . If then by step 4.1, and has while every point with has third homogeneous coordinate by step 1.2; hence and . If , then comparing the chart coordinates of the common point gives and ; by [F7] the first equality gives or modulo , and in the second case by the oddness in [F4], so , that is ; then for some by [F7] and modulo because . Hence in all cases , so is injective.
(Surjectivity.) Let . If , put and ; the equation of reads . By [F7] the value is attained: choose with ; then by [F5], and by [F6] , so or . In the first case ; in the second case and by [F4], so . If , then the equation gives , so and by step 4.1. Hence is surjective.
(Local biholomorphy at the remaining points.) Let and ; write for the defining polynomial in the chart of [F9]. If , then ; by [F10] applied to (whose zero set is in that chart), is a local parameter on at , and the chart expression of in the torus chart at and this parameter is , holomorphic at with derivative by [F4]; so by F11 this chart expression restricts to a biholomorphism between neighbourhoods, and is a local biholomorphism at . If instead , then modulo for some by [F7], and . By [F8] the roots of are distinct, so ; applying [F10] to near shows that is a local parameter on at . By [F7] the class is a critical point of with ramification index , so has a zero of order at ; by [F13] it factors as with holomorphic near and , so by the product rule of [F13] and . The chart expression of in the torus chart at and the local parameter is , holomorphic with derivative at ; so by F11 this chart expression restricts to a biholomorphism between neighbourhoods, and is a local biholomorphism at . Every class of is , a class with , or some , so carries a neighbourhood of every point of homeomorphically onto an open subset of , with holomorphic inverse on that piece.
( is a homeomorphism; the topology of .) By steps 5.1 and 6.1 every has an open neighbourhood such that is open in and is a homeomorphism. Hence is continuous, because it is continuous on each member of the open cover of its domain; and is open: for open one has , and each piece is open in , hence in , because is a homeomorphism onto the open set . By steps 5.2 and 5.3 the map is bijective, so by F11 it is a homeomorphism. Consequently inherits the following properties from : it is compact and connected as a continuous image of the compact connected torus ([F2], [F14]); it is Hausdorff, because distinct points of have distinct preimages by injectivity, the Hausdorff torus [F2] separates them by disjoint open sets, and their -images are disjoint open sets separating and ; and it is second countable, because for a countable basis of the second-countable torus [F2] the images , , are open and form a basis by [F15]: given open and , the set is open and contains , so some has , whence . The local parameters of [F10] are charts on with holomorphic transitions, so by [F15] the space , nonempty and homeomorphic to through , is a compact connected Riemann surface.
(The inverse is holomorphic, and conclusion.) By steps 1.2, 4.1 and 6.1 the map is holomorphic and a local biholomorphism at every point; by steps 5.2 and 5.3 it is bijective. At a point , let charts around and around be such that is the identity (these exist because is a local biholomorphism at , as recorded in steps 5.1 and 6.1); then the chart expression of is the identity too, hence holomorphic at ; since every point of carries such charts, is holomorphic by the locality clause of [F12]. Thus is a biholomorphism. Finally, by step 7.1 the space is a compact connected Riemann surface homeomorphic to through ; clause (1) is exactly [F8]. ∎
Remarks
The map is the classical uniformization of the lattice cubic: the two functions and solve the algebraic equation because of the differential equation, and the degree-two fibre structure of is what makes the parametrization injective. The three points where vanishes are exactly the branch points of the cubic, and the map is a local biholomorphism there because on the curve the coordinate is a local parameter at a point with and is a simple root of the cubic polynomial. Smoothness of is imported from Nonvanishing of the lattice discriminant; the present theorem is the biholomorphic half of the classical statement, and the group law transported along is analysed in The chord-tangent group law and elliptic uniformization.
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- Complex lattice and quotient torus
- The quotient $\mathbb C/\Lambda$ is a compact Riemann surface
- Weierstrass p function
- Elliptic function for a lattice
- Normal convergence, parity and periodicity of the Weierstrass p function
- Weierstrass cubic differential equation
- Degree two of ℘ and its four branch points
- Nonvanishing of the lattice discriminant
- projective space points
- Riemann surfaces and holomorphic atlases
- Holomorphic maps and meromorphic functions on Riemann surfaces
- Local holomorphic charts on nonsingular complex algebraic curves
- Holomorphic inverse function theorem and local-degree criterion
- Biholomorphic maps between complex domains
- Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological
- Second countability: an at most countable basis for the topology
- Basis and subbasis for a topology, and the topology generated by a family of sets
- Ramification index, ramification order and branch value
- Characterizations of removable singularities
- The order of a zero is the exponent in its local holomorphic factorization
- Locally uniform limits of holomorphic functions are holomorphic and their derivatives converge locally uniformly
- A holomorphic function equals its Taylor series throughout the largest centred disc in its domain
- Linearity, product, reciprocal, and quotient rules for complex derivatives
- The chain rule for complex derivatives
- Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, $z\overline z=|z|^2$, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive
- A continuous image of a connected space is connected, and connectedness is a topological property
- 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
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- C. T. McMullen, Advanced Complex Analysis, Math 213a course notes, Ch. 5 §5.1, pp. 79-90 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. S. Milne, Modular Functions and Modular Forms, Ch. 3, pp. 41-47 (standard reference, not scraped)
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, §23.2, equations 23.2.1-23.2.17 (standard reference, not scraped)