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Locally bounded and separately holomorphic implies holomorphic
Statement
Let , let be open and let be separately holomorphic and locally bounded: every point of has a neighbourhood on which is bounded. Then is continuous on and holomorphic on .
The local-boundedness hypothesis is used, and it is not shown here to be removable: this page carries no theorem that separate holomorphy alone implies holomorphy, and none of its results is applied as if it did.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An open and a separately holomorphic, locally bounded ; is read through Complex -space and its real coordinate dictionary.
If is separately holomorphic on with there and , then for , so is Lipschitz there (A bounded separately holomorphic function on a polydisc is Lipschitz on every smaller polydisc).
A continuous separately holomorphic function on an open subset of is holomorphic (Osgood's lemma: continuous and separately holomorphic implies holomorphic).
Separate holomorphy is a condition on the slices through each point of the domain (Separately holomorphic functions), and holomorphic means complex differentiable at every point (Holomorphic functions on an open subset of ).
A function whose restrictions to the members of an open cover are continuous is continuous (Continuity may be checked on any open cover, and on any finite closed cover; composites of continuous maps are continuous).
and are defined coordinatewise by and (Balls, polydiscs and the distinguished boundary in ).
A set is open exactly when each of its points admits a ball inside it, , and a subset is bounded when it is empty or lies inside a ball (The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement, Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space, Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space).
Proof
Fix . Local boundedness and [L6] give and with and on , after intersecting the bounding neighbourhood with a ball inside . Put ; then , since for by [L5] and the dictionary.
The restriction of to is separately holomorphic by [L3], since a slice domain inside is an open subset of the corresponding slice domain inside and a restriction of a one-variable holomorphic function to an open subset is holomorphic; and there by step 1.1.
Applying [L1] with , the function is Lipschitz, hence continuous, on , and in particular on the open set , which contains and is open by [L5] and [L6].
The sets obtained in step 3.1 as ranges over form an open cover of on each member of which is continuous, so is continuous on by [L4].
By step 4.1 the function is continuous on and separately holomorphic by hypothesis, so [L2] makes it holomorphic on . The bound entered only through step 1.1 and [L1]; nothing above removes it, and this page proves no statement that would.
Depends on
- A bounded separately holomorphic function on a polydisc is Lipschitz on every smaller polydisc
- Osgood's lemma: continuous and separately holomorphic implies holomorphic
- Separately holomorphic functions
- Holomorphic functions on an open subset of $\mathbb{C}^m$
- Continuity may be checked on any open cover, and on any finite closed cover; composites of continuous maps are continuous
- Balls, polydiscs and the distinguished boundary in $\mathbb{C}^m$
- The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement
- Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space
- Bounded subset, diameter, distance from a point to a set, and distance between two sets in a metric space
- Complex $m$-space and its real coordinate dictionary
- Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, $z\overline z=|z|^2$, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive
Used by
- A bounded function of two real variables whose every coordinate slice is real analytic is continuous False statement
- Conventions on this page, and what the several-variable identity theorem does not say Remark
- Why local boundedness gives joint continuity here and nothing like it holds in the real case Remark
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Sources
- J. Lebl, Tasty Bits of Several Complex Variables, §1.2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- H. P. Boas, Lecture Notes on Multidimensional Complex Analysis, Ch. 2 (standard reference, not scraped)