Paper 2, Section II, I

Riemann Surfaces
Part II, 2013

(i) Show that the open unit discD={zC:z<1}\operatorname{disc} D=\{z \in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\} is biholomorphic to the upper half-plane H={zC:Im(z)>0}\mathbb{H}=\{z \in \mathbb{C}: \operatorname{Im}(z)>0\}.

(ii) Define the degree of a non-constant holomorphic map between compact connected Riemann surfaces. State the Riemann-Hurwitz formula without proof. Now let XX be a complex torus and f:XYf: X \rightarrow Y a holomorphic map of degree 2 , where YY is the Riemann sphere. Show that ff has exactly four branch points.

(iii) List without proof those Riemann surfaces whose universal cover is the Riemann sphere or C\mathbb{C}. Now let f:CCf: \mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C} be a holomorphic map such that there are two distinct elements a,bCa, b \in \mathbb{C} outside the image of ff. Assuming the uniformization theorem and the monodromy theorem, show that ff is constant.