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The Riemann surface of an nth root is the n-sheeted covering w maps to w to the nth power
Statement
Fix an integer . Let be the Riemann surface of the complete analytic function generated by the principal th-root germ at over . Define
Then is a biholomorphism, and if is the germ projection, then
Thus is the standard -sheeted covering of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The th-root germ surface and its projection .
The principal root branch on the slit plane is a biholomorphism onto the sector , with inverse (A slit-plane root branch biholomorphically parametrizes a sector).
The logarithm surface is biholomorphic to over via the exponential map (The Riemann surface of the logarithm is the complex plane over the punctured plane via exp).
The germ projection on a complete analytic function is a local biholomorphism (The germ projection is a local biholomorphism).
Proof
For each , let and define for . Because , the principal logarithm is defined there, and while . So is an th-root germ over .
The germ lies on . By [L2], choose with . Along the path from to , refine so that successive values of are close enough for the neighboring branches to agree on overlaps, exactly as in the logarithm-surface construction. This continues the principal root germ at to .
If , then the two germs have the same base point and the same value there, so . Hence is injective.
Let and put . Shrink the representative domain to a connected disc . On the quotient is holomorphic and satisfies for every . So lies in the finite set of th roots of unity. Since is connected and , the function is constantly . Thus , and is surjective.
The inverse of is . In a chart one has , so [L3] makes holomorphic. Near any fixed , the chart satisfies , which is holomorphic in , so is holomorphic. Therefore is a biholomorphism.
For every one has , so under the projection is the power map . Its fibre over a nonzero point consists of the distinct roots for , so this is exactly the standard -sheeted covering of .
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Sources
- Lars V. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., Ch. 3 §4.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Henry Wilton, Riemann Surfaces lecture notes, §2.3 (standard reference, not scraped)