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Complex geometry is the study of complex manifolds, complex algebraic varieties, complex analytic spaces, and, by extension, of almost complex structures. It is a part of differential geometry, algebraic geometry and analytic geometry.

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How would a topologist explain "every Riemann surface of genus $g$ is hyperelliptic if and o...

A 19th century topologist would explain this by dimension count. By Riemann-Hurwitz, a surface of genus $g$ covering the sphere with $2$ sheets has $2g+2$ ramification points which gives $2g-1$ free c …
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Poincaré metric on the Riemann sphere minus more than two points

Yes. The density of the Poincare metric with respect to the spherical metric is a positive continuous function which tends to infinity at the punctures. Thus it is bounded from below by some positive …
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A "holomorphic" Peano curve?

Here it is: MR0015154 Salem, R.; Zygmund, A. Lacunary power series and Peano curves. Duke Math. J. 12, (1945). 569–578.
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Embed a bordered Riemann surface into punctured Riemann surfaces?

The answer is no. For $g=0$, the problem is equivalent to the following: is there a univalent function in the unit disk which takes given values at finitely many given points. It is well known that th …
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Interesting results for open Riemann surfaces

The results on open Riemann surfaces are not "rare". They are just well forgotten. I only list a few books which deal with open Riemann surfaces: MR0114911 (Zbl 0196.33801), MR0228671 (Zbl 0152.27401) …
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Are real-analytic functions in $\mathbb{R}^2$ holomorphic after suitable change of coordinates?

The answer is negative. For the non-injective case, the reason is that non-constant complex analytic functions are open, discrete maps, while real analytic functions can be neither open nor discrete ( …
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A harmonic function

Yes, it can be found explicitly, though not in elementary functions but in terms of a combination of elementary and hypergeometric functions. The problem is (almost) equivalent to finding a conformal …
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Spicing up Riemann surfaces course (revised)

Forster just touches the Riemann-Hilbert problem and fiber bundles. Expansion on this can be interesting I recommend the books of Bolibrukh. Applications of compact Riemann surfaces to solitons ("Ex …
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Gluing Riemann surfaces

The answer to the first question is "yes". This is called conformal gluing, and the proof is based on the following lemma due to Lavrentiev: Let $\phi$ be an increasing diffeomorphism of $[-1,1]$ onto …
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Universal covering map from $\mathcal{H}$ to $\mathbb{C}\setminus \mathbb{Z}\oplus i\mathbb{...

On the first question (the universal cover of the complement of a lattice). The missing points are in the image, so it is not the map that "behaves" but the inverse map. The inverse map behaves in a v …
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The behaviour of holomorphic mapping of curves

You are asking too many questions, some of them are very difficult. Here are some answers. Image of a Jordan curve under a rational function. Take a circle for $\gamma$. Every continuous function o …
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The holomorphic version of Galois theory

The thing you are asking was much studied in connection with Hilbert Problem 13. The roots of a polynomial of degree exactly $d$ form an unordered $d$-tuple. The set of unordered $d$-tuples is called …
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why do we need to study entire curves?

A good reference is S. Lang, Introduction to complex hyperbolic geometry. Shortly, I can give the following reasons. Listed in historical order. There are famous Picard theorems about entire curves …
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Three questions about three functions similar to $\sin,\cos$

There is no addition formula: functions satisfying an algebraic addition formula have been completely characterized, Painlevé, P. Sur les fonctions qui admettent un théorème d’addition, Acta Math. 27, …
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Reference request: uniformization theorem

On a basic level: W. Abikoff, The uniformization theorem, Amer. Math. Monthly 88 (1981), no. 8, 574–592. L. Ahlfors, Conformal invariants, last chapter. S. Donaldson, Riemann surfaces, Oxford, 2011. V …
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