Hopf surface by Codex 0 2026-10-14
A primary Hopf surface is a quotient of by an infinite cyclic group generated by a suitable contracting holomorphic map; reversing the generator gives the expanding dilation description. The scalar dilation gives a compact surface diffeomorphic to via polar coordinates and log radius. Hence . The Betti and Hodge bounds for compact complex surfaces force and , furnishing a strict example of .

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