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Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra
This seems to be a favorite question everywhere, including Princeton quals. How many ways are there?
Please give a new way in each answer, and if possible give reference. I start by giving two:
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Uniformization theorem for Riemann surfaces
How does one prove that every simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to the open unit disk, the complex plane, or the Riemann sphere, and these are not conformally equivalent to ...
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"Three great cocycles" in Complex Analysis as cohomology generators
In his lecture notes, C. McMullen discusses "the three great cocycles" in Complex Analysis: the derivative $$f\mapsto\log f',$$ the non-linearity $$f\mapsto (\log f')'dz$$
and the Schwarzian ...
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Contractibility of the space of Jordan curves
Is the space of Jordan curves in $\textbf{R}^2$ contractible? In other words, is there a canonical or continuous way to deform each Jordan curve to the unit circle $\textbf{S}^1$.
If the curves are ...
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A strange infinite fraction, and a functional equation
The following curious-looking fraction, with numerical value approximately $1.7302267782385217$, appears in this Reddit question:
$$1+\cfrac{2+\cfrac{4+\cfrac{8+\cdots}{9+\cdots}}{5+\cfrac{10+\cdots}{...
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Kasteleyn's formula for domino tilings generalized?
It seems a marvel when a bunch of irrational numbers "conspire" to become rational, even better an integer. An elementary example is $\prod_{j=1}^n4\cos^2\left(\pi j/(2n+1)\right)=1$.
Kasteleyn's ...
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Cardioid-looking curve, does it have a name?
The curve, given in polar coordinates as $r(\theta)=\sin(\theta)/\theta$
is plotted below.
This is similar to the classical cardioid, but it is not the same curve (the curve above is not even ...
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References for complex analytic geometry?
I'm looking for references on the "algebraic geometry" side of complex analytis, i.e. on complex spaces, morphisms of those spaces, coherent sheaves, flat morphisms, direct image sheaves etc....
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Cartan–Oka vanishing in one variable without $\overline{\partial}$?
This is a literature question, about possible proofs of some very basic results in complex analysis.
Some key facts about holomorphic functions are proved via reduction to smooth functions, using $\...
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Belyi functions on non-compact surfaces; or: Building Riemann surfaces from equilateral triangles
Some background on (compact) Belyi surfaces
$\newcommand{\Ch}{\hat{\mathbb{C}}}$
A compact Riemann surface $X$ is called a Belyi surface if there exists a branched covering map $f:X\to \Ch$ such that $...
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Vanishing of Dolbeault cohomologies and Steinness
That Stein manifolds have all $(p,q), p \geq 0, q \geq 1$ vanishing Dolbeault cohomology groups is more or less standard. I am a little bit confused about the reverse implication: whether the ...
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Who first defined _simply connected_, reference?
The following definition is due to Donald J. Newman:
A connected open subset $D$ of the plane $\mathbb C$
is simply connected
if and only if its complement $\widetilde D = \mathbb C \setminus D$
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Zeros of the derivative of Riemann's $\xi$-function
The Riemann xi function $\xi(s)$ is defined as
$$
\xi(s)=\frac12 s(s-1)\pi^{-s/2}\Gamma(s/2)\zeta(s).
$$
It is an entire function whose zeros are precisely those of $\zeta(s)$.
Since $\xi$ is real ...
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Dirichlet series expansion of an analytic function
Let $F(s)=\sum_{n\geq 1}\frac{a_n}{n^s}$ be a Dirichlet series with (finite) abscissa of absolute convergence $\sigma_a$. It can be shown that $\forall \sigma >\sigma_a:$
$$\lim_{T\to\infty}\frac{1}...
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How is the "conformal prediction" conformal?
The question is clarified by Prof.V.Vovk. See his answer below for discussion.
Recently, early works of Gammerman, Vanpnik and Vovk[4] are rediscovered by Wasserman et.al[1] and proposed it as a ...
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Is the exponential function the sole solution to these equations?
Let us take the exponential function $\lambda^z$ where $0 < \lambda < 1$. There are many great uniqueness conditions this holomorphic function satisfies. For example, it is the only function ...
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"Simple" Kahler manifolds
I have some lecture notes from Demailly on Kahler geometry where he talks about "variétés Kahleriennes simples", which are defined as Kahler manifolds $X$ such that for very generic points $x_0$ in $X$...
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Special values of $\zeta$ outside the real line and the critical strip
The values of Riemann's function at the integers have been extensively studied. I was wondering, is there anything interesting known (or conjectured) to happen arithmetically outside the real line (...
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Can the equation $1+z+z^2=z^n$ for natural $n$ have multiple complex roots $z$?
The question is stated in the title of this post.
It is easy to see that, if $z$ is a multiple root of $p_n(z):=1+z+z^2-z^n$, then $(n-2)z^2+(n-1)z+n=0$, so that we can successively express $z^2,\dots,...
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Short research articles
I am a masters student. I am interested in short articles which have counter examples and very few references. I want to write a short and interesting article.
For example; One of the best known ...
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Has there been further work on Bender-Brody-Müller approach to RH?
Earlier this year (April 4, 2017), a seemingly tantalizing approach of the Riemann Hypothesis based on ideas dating back to Hilbert and Pólya by Bender, Brody and Müller was made publicly available. I ...
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How many isolated roots can a polynomial in $z$ and $\overline{z}$ have?
This is probably well-known by I can't find it now online. My guess is that if the degree is $n$ then it's $2n$ but it's just a hunch.
EDIT:
This is an edited version. Before I asked about roots ...
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Extending an assignment property from Q to R (or C)
Property of any odd number of nonnegative integers:
Given $x_1 \leq \cdots \leq x_{2n + 1}$ with each $x_i \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$, suppose that for any $x_i$ we remove, the remaining numbers can be ...
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Is there a holomorphic Morse-Bott lemma?
It asks for a generalization of the question in the post
Normal form for a holomorphic Morse function
Suppose $f$ is a holomorphic function on a complex manifold $M$ which has Bott type critical ...
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Resources for divergent / asymptotic series
This series is divergent; therefore, we may be able to do something with it. -- Oliver Heaviside
[Edit (1/14/21) from the answer by Count Iblis to a recent MO-Q on math vids: An enthusiastic intro is ...
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Analysis and finitely generated groups
Dear all, this is perhaps a bit a vague question, but some references would already be very helpfull.
So let $G$ be a finitely generated group and choose some finite set of generators. This allows to ...
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On entire functions with polynomial Schwarzian derivative
The Schwarzian derivative of an entire holomorphic function $f$ is defined as
$$Sf:=\left(\frac{f^{''}}{f'}\right)'-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{f^{''}}{f'}\right)^2.$$
In the following, we only consider ...
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Origin of term Ahlfors-David regular
Much of the literature on analysis in metric spaces makes use of an assumption called Ahlfors regularity or Ahlfors-David regularity. Let $q>0$. A metric space $(X,d)$ is Ahlfors(-David) $q$-...
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Analytic function avoiding elements of the modular group
A friend recently told me the following two facts, for which he cannot recall a proof or a reference
(but he remembers seeing them in the literature):
Let $f$ be a holomorphic function mapping the ...
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zeros on the circle of convergence
In this question some experiments were used to conjecture that the zeros of partial sums of a series converging to a function with natural boundary on the unit circle were (weakly) converging to the ...
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Is there an analogue of Mostow-Palais equivariant embedding theorem for noncompact groups
Let $M$ be a (Hausdorff) smooth compact manifold and $G$ a Lie group acting smoothly on $M$. If $G$ is compact then, by Mostow-Palais theorem, there exists an equivariant smooth embedding $M\to {\...
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Modern version of an inequality of R. M. Gabriel for contour integrals
I am currently reading the 1998 article Dynamics of the Binary Euclidean Algorithm:
Functional Analysis and Operators by Brigitte Vallée, which cites a 1928 article by R. M. Gabriel for the following ...
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“Taylor series” is to “Volterra series” as “Laurent series” is to _________?
Preamble
My question is similar to an earlier MathOverflow question:
“Taylor series” is to “Volterra series” as “Padé approximant” is to _________? which I just answered (hopefully my first ever ...
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The Paley-Wiener theorem and exponential decay.
Consider a function whose Fourier transform is supported on a half-ray:
$$
A(t)=\int_0^\infty \omega(E) e^{-iEt}d E,
$$
where I can suppose $\omega(E)\geq 0$ and any suitable regularity conditions on $...
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Implicit Function Theorem on Singular Varieties
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two complex reduced affine algebraic or analytic varieties, possibly singular. Take a regular proper function
$$f\colon X \to Y $$
and assume that it is bijective at the level of $...
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Cauchy path integral as a linear operator: kernel and image?
Let $\mathcal O(\Omega)$ be the algebra of functions holomorphic on the open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb C$. For $\gamma$ a simple compact curve in $\mathbb C$ consider the linear operator given by path-...
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Complex geometry text/research introduction for the analyst
To give some background, I am mainly an analyst trained in harmonic/functional and do work on geometric pde's and spectral multipliers. Of late, I am trying to learn more about (research level) ...
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References on Taylor series expansion of Riemann xi function
I am looking for the references on Taylor series expansion of Riemann xi function at $\frac{1}{2}$.
$$ \xi (s)=\sum_0^{\infty}a_{2n}(s-\frac{1}{2})^{2n}$$
where
$$a_{2n}=4\int_1^{\infty}\frac{d[x^{3/...
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Is anything known about the power series $\sum x^p$ for $p$ prime?
I'm interested in information about the power series
$$\sum_{\text{$p$ prime}} x^p$$
and the related power series
$$\sum_{n=1}^\infty (-1)^n x^{p(n)}$$
where $p(n)$ is the nth prime.
Immediately, the ...
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$C^\infty$ function $f:{\bf C}\mapsto {\bf C}$ such that $f(z)\in\overline{{\bf Q}(z)}$ for all $z\in {\bf C}$
Suppose that $f:{\bf C}\mapsto {\bf C}$ is a $C^\infty$ function such that $f(z)\in\overline{{\bf Q}(z)}$ for all $z\in {\bf C}$, ie $f(z)$ is algebraic over the field ${\bf Q}(z)$ generated by $z$ ...
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Monge Ampere equations
I am a graduate student trying to understand complex Monge-Ampere equations(mostly on complex manifolds with or without boundary, but also in C^n), but I can't put my hand on any monograph/textbook ...
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Applications of the Small and Great Theorems of Picard
I just presented the two famous theorems of Picard (Small and Great) in a graduate course, but I have not managed to discover a good number of interesting applications.
List of applications (rather ...
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Local polynomial form of holomorphic functions
It is well-known that a germ of a holomorphic function of $n\geq 2$ variables, with at most an isolated singularity (i.e. the singularity of the analytic variety defined by the zero locus of the ...
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Harmonic level sets and boundary data
This is probably a classic problem, so a good reference book or paper to get me started on this type of question would be great:
Let $\mathbb{D} \subset \mathbb{C}$ be the unit disk with boundary $\...
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Literature on non-Archimedean analogues of basic complex analysis results
It looks like there is some literature out there on what might be called 'non-Archimedean complex analysis' e.g. Benedetto - An Ahlfors Islands Theorem for non-archimedean meromorphic functions and ...
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Reference for flatness in complex-analytic geometry
What is a good reference for flat morphisms of complex-analytic spaces? (The book by Grauert and Remmert doesn't treat them).
Topics I'm interested in: openness of flat maps, descent for coherent ...
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Pair correlation for the Riemann zeros and $(\zeta^\prime(s)/\zeta(s))^\prime$
Added Background: The pair correlation of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function is influenced by the the derivative of the logarithmic derivative $(\zeta^\prime(s)/\zeta(s))^\prime$; see for example ...
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Composite residues with determinant denominators
I am looking for a good reference on composite residues of multi-variable contour integrals (something better and more explicit than Griffiths and Harris or Tsikh). This means I want to evaluate $\...
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On the remainder of a power series evaluated on the boundary of its convergence disk
Background
This question is related to this one, in the sense that, as the previous one, it originates from my efforts to extend an estimate on the remainder of a power series on a non necessarily ...
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Cohomology of complex manifold vs cohomology of its complex submanifold
Let $X$ be a smooth complex analytic manifold. Let $Z\subset X$ be a smooth compact analytic submanifold. Let $A$ be a holomorphic vector bundle over $X$. Assume that
$$H^i(Z, A|_Z)=0 \mbox{ for any } ...
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