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A formal coordinate need not converge
Statement
There is an isomorphism of completed local rings on the projectively presented pointed curve whose defining series has radius of convergence zero. Thus formal coordinates need not arise from analytic coordinate germs.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The formal-coordinate convention and Aut O of this pair.
Pointed curve with formal coordinates: a formal coordinate is a continuous isomorphism of completed local rings; it is not required to converge.
Formal-coordinate change group Aut O: every series is an allowed formal-coordinate change, and its inverse is obtained by recursively solving coefficients.
A smooth curve has a formal coordinate at every point: the completion of the local ring at the chosen smooth point is a formal power-series ring; for at , the standard affine coordinate identifies it with .
A holomorphic function equals its Taylor series throughout the largest centred disc in its domain: the Taylor series of an analytic germ has a positive radius of convergence.
Proof
On at , take the formal series . The map sending and fixing constants is a continuous ring isomorphism: its linear coefficient is , so the coefficients of a compositional inverse are determined recursively as in [F2]. By [F3], it is a formal coordinate of the pointed curve.
For any fixed complex , the ratio of consecutive term magnitudes in the tail is , which tends to infinity. In particular, the terms do not tend to zero, so the series diverges at every nonzero . Its radius of convergence is therefore zero, and by [F4] it cannot be the Taylor series of an analytic coordinate germ.