MAU34205 Topics in complex analysis I
Module Code | MAU34205 |
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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.