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MAU34205 Topics in complex analysis I

Module Code MAU34205
Module Title Topics in complex analysis I
Semester taught Semester 1
ECTS Credits 5
Module Lecturer Prof. Dmitri Zaitsev
Module Prerequisites MAU23204 Introduction to complex analysis

Assessment Details

  • This module is examined in a 2-hour examination at the end of Semester 1.
  • Students are assessed based on the exam alone.
  • Re-assessment, if needed, consists of 100% exam.

Contact Hours

11 weeks of teaching with 3 lectures per week.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to

  • Operate with holomorphic functions and branches of multi-valued holomorphic functions.
  • Give the appropriate definitions, statement and proofs of Cauchy's theorem and its consequences.
  • Demonstrate the use of the Morera and Riemann extension theorems.
  • Give examples of power and Laurent series as well as examples of isolated singularities that are removable, poles or essential.

Module Content

  • Real and complex differentiability, holomorphic functions, branches of multi-valued functions, branches of the logarithmic function and the nth root function, conformal mappings.
  • Complex integration along piecewise smooth paths, antiderivatives, calculating integrals using antiderivatives, Cauchy's theorem.
  • Goursat's version for a triangle, for star-shaped regions and their unions, homotopy version.
  • Elements of homology and the homological version of Cauchy's theorem.
  • Cauchy's integral formula, power series expansion of holomorphic functions, mean value property, maximum modulus principle, radius and disk of convergence of power series.
  • Cauchy-Hadamard formula, theorem of Morera, Cauchy's estimates, Liouville's theorem, fundamental theorem of algebra, compact convergence and the Weierstrass theorem.
  • Order of zeroes, identity principle, Laurent series expansion in a ring, isolated singularities, removable singularities, essential singularities, poles.
  • Riemann extension theorem, meromorphic functions, Casorate-Weierstrass theorem.
  • Argument principle, Rouché's theorem, open mapping theorem, the univalence theorem (local injectivity criterion), inverse function theorem.
  • Spaces of holomorphic functions, seminorms, Montel's theorem, biholomorphic maps between open sets, Riemann mapping theorem.
  • M¨aut;bius transformations, Riemann sphere (extended complex plane), stereographic projection, rationality of meromorphic functions on the Riemann sphere, automorphisms of the Riemann sphere and the complex plane, Schwarz Lemma.
  • Automorphisms of the disk, Cayley transform, automorphisms of the upper half-plane, homogeneity of the Riemann sphere, complex plane and disk.

Recommended Reading

  • Complex analysis by L.V. Ahlfors.
  • Functions of one complex variable by J.B. Conway.
  • Theory of complex functions by R. Remmert.
  • Complex variables and applications by Brown and Churchill.
  • An introduction to complex function theory by B.P. Palka.