Every Möbius transformation is a biholomorphism of the Riemann sphere

Depends on

• The standard holomorphic charts on the Riemann sphere, with holomorphy and poles at infinity
• Möbius transformations of the Riemann sphere
• Möbius transformations form a group and identify with the projective linear quotient of GL_2(C)

Used by

• A meromorphic essential singularity omits at most two sphere values Corollary
• A nonconstant meromorphic function on the plane omits at most two sphere values Corollary
• The genus of a compact Riemann surface determines its uniformization type Corollary
• Complex conjugation is a homeomorphism of the Riemann sphere that is not holomorphic Counterexample
• Uniqueness of Beltrami solutions fails without the three-point normalization Counterexample
• Conformal removability of compact sets Definition
• Quasicircles, quasidisks, quasiarcs, and quasilines Definition
• The modular group and its action on the upper half-plane Definition
• The welding homeomorphism of a Jordan curve Definition
• A single point is conformally removable Example
• Normalization of a solution by a Möbius postcomposition Example
• Power maps, endpoint distortion, and a non-Möbius quasisymmetric circle map Example
• The Cayley transform carries the upper half-plane biholomorphically onto the unit disc Example
• The Möbius ambiguity in conformal welding Example
• The upper half-plane Bergman kernel by biholomorphic transport Example
• FALSE: every Möbius self-map of the Riemann sphere restricts to an entire biholomorphism of the complex plane False statement
• A simply connected surface without a Green kernel is plane or sphere Lemma
• Analytic quasiconformality gives both quadrilateral modulus bounds Lemma
• Compact sets of positive area are not conformally removable Lemma
• Compact subsets of lines and round circles are removable for quasiconformal maps Lemma
• Conformal removability is invariant under quasiconformal maps Lemma
• Riemann maps of Jordan domains extend to homeomorphisms of the closures Lemma
• Smooth Beltrami coefficients admit quasiconformal solutions Lemma
• Three omitted values force exterior extension Lemma
• A unique Möbius transformation carries any ordered triple of distinct sphere points to any other Theorem
• Automorphisms of the upper half-plane are real Mobius maps Theorem
• Bounded turning, quasiconformal images of the circle, and quasiconformal reflections Theorem
• Every biholomorphic self-map of the Riemann sphere is Möbius Theorem
• Every quasisymmetric circle homeomorphism is a conformal welding Theorem
• Möbius transformations preserve circlines and conjugate their reflections Theorem
• The cross-ratio is invariant under Möbius transformations Theorem
• The local Second Main Theorem on a punctured disc Theorem
• The measurable Riemann mapping theorem on the sphere Theorem
• Zero-length compact sets and quasicircles are conformally removable Theorem

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Sources

• Lars V. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., Ch. 3 §§2.2-3.5 (standard reference, not scraped)
• Matthias Weber, Complex Analysis, Ch. 1 §§1.3-1.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
• Elias M. Stein and Rami Shakarchi, Complex Analysis, Ch. 8 §§1-2 (standard reference, not scraped)