A nonempty topological space is irreducible when it is not the union of two proper closed subsets, equivalently when any two nonempty open subsets intersect.
The Zariski topology on is Noetherian because satisfies the ascending chain condition on ideals. Suppose a closed set that is not a finite union of irreducible closed sets were minimal among such counterexamples. It is reducible, say with both proper closed subsets. Minimality expresses each as a finite union of irreducible closed sets, and combining those decompositions contradicts the choice of . Thus every closed has a finite irreducible decomposition.
Using , the second defining polynomial reduces to
Consequently
Each component is the image of and is isomorphic to , hence irreducible. In characteristic two the two displayed components coincide.
Suppose a polynomial vanishes on every . Then
as an entire function. These exponential-polynomial functions are linearly independent: applying kills the term with largest exponent, while it acts injectively on for ; induction on the number of terms finishes the proof. Hence every is zero, so no nonzero polynomial vanishes on the graph. Its Zariski closure is all of .
Finally refine an open cover of an affine variety by distinguished opens , choosing one inside an original member around each point. Since these distinguished opens cover,
The Hilbert Nullstellensatz implies that the generate the unit ideal. Thus
for finitely many of them, so cover . The corresponding original open sets form a finite subcover. This is quasi-compactness of an affine variety.
A covering map is locally a disjoint union of homeomorphisms onto the base. A space is simply connected when it is path-connected and every loop is null-homotopic. By the uniformization theorem, the simply connected Riemann surfaces are
up to analytic isomorphism.
A lattice is a discrete subgroup
with . The Weierstrass elliptic function
converges normally on compact subsets of , defines a meromorphic map , and is nonconstant because it has a double pole at every lattice point. Reindexing the normally convergent derivative series shows that is -periodic; evenness fixes the integration constants, so .
The invariance makes
well-defined and unique on . It is analytic because the quotient projection is locally biholomorphic.
Neither map is a covering. For any nonzero , periodicity and oddness of give
so . The map is not a local homeomorphism there; since the quotient projection is locally biholomorphic, the descended map fails for the same reason.
There is no covering . The torus is connected, while every connected covering of the simply connected sphere is a homeomorphism. A torus is not homeomorphic to a sphere, for example because their fundamental groups are and .

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