Paper 3, Section II, G

Riemann Surfaces
Part II, 2010

Show that the analytic isomorphisms (i.e. conformal equivalences) of the Riemann sphere C\mathbb{C}_{\infty} to itself are given by the non-constant Möbius transformations.

State the Riemann-Hurwitz formula for a non-constant analytic map between compact Riemann surfaces, carefully explaining the terms which occur.

Suppose now that f:CCf: \mathbb{C}_{\infty} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}_{\infty} is an analytic map of degree 2 ; show that there exist Möbius transformations SS and TT such that

SfT:CCS f T: \mathbb{C}_{\infty} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}_{\infty}

is the map given by zz2z \mapsto z^{2}.