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For Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ and $(N,h)$, the product metric on $M\times N$ is $g\oplus h$. Its Levi-Civita connection and curvature split by factors, so its Ricci and scalar curvatures are the corresponding sums.

This equips a product manifold with the direct-sum Riemannian metric.

The arc length of a piecewise smooth curve $\gamma :[a,b]\to M$ on a Riemannian manifold is the integral of its speed:An odometer measures this accumulated travel rather than displacement between the endpoints. In Euclidean space, the Riemannian metric is the ordinary inner product, so the formula becomes ${\int }_a^b\sqrt{{\sum }_i{\dot{\gamma }}_i(t{)}^2}dt$.

For a circle of radius $R$ traversed through an angle $\alpha$, use $\gamma (t)=(R\cos (\alpha t),R\sin (\alpha t))$, $0\le t\le 1$. Its speed is $R|\alpha |$, hence its arc length is $R|\alpha |$. Traversing a full circle twice gives $4\pi R$, even though the starting and ending points coincide. The same formula measures the two great circle arcs pictured in geodesic.

The curve parameter controls how fast the journey happens, not its arc length. A regular increasing or decreasing reparametrization preserves the integral by change of variables; reversing direction leaves the speed norm unchanged. Retracing part of a route does add length, because it changes the actual journey.

A Riemannian surface is a two-dimensional smooth manifold equipped with a smoothly varying inner product on each tangent plane.

A Riemannian manifold is a pair $(M,g)$ consisting of a smooth manifold $M$ and a Riemannian metric $g$. For each point $p$, the positive-definite inner product $g_p$ on its tangent space tells us the size and angle of possible instantaneous movements. The smooth manifold describes which local coordinates are possible; the Riemannian metric adds a choice of measurement.

For example, the plane can carry $d{s}^2=d{x}^2+d{y}^2$ or $d{s}^2=4d{x}^2+d{y}^2$. In the second Riemannian metric, a horizontal displacement costs twice as much length as the same coordinate displacement in the first. The underlying smooth manifold is unchanged. The coordinate transformation $X=2x,Y=y$ identifies the second geometry with an ordinary Euclidean plane, illustrating why coordinate appearance alone does not determine curvature.

A round sphere with its induced metric is another Riemannian manifold. Its tangent spaces each have an ordinary Euclidean inner product, although its global geometry is different from a plane's. This is the useful tension: measurements are Euclidean to first order at a point, while how those measurements fit together produces curvature and global restrictions on geodesics.

For $\Re s>0$, the alternating Dirichlet seriesconverges locally uniformly and defines a holomorphic function. For $\Re s>1$,

The logarithmic derivative of a nonzero differentiable function $f$ is $f^{\prime }/f$. For $\Re s>1$, the Euler product for the Riemann zeta function gives

A nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function lies in the critical strip $0<\Re s<1$. The functional equation of the Riemann zeta function reflects such zeros across the critical line $\Re s=1/2$.

The completed zeta functionis an entire function satisfying $\xi (s)=\xi (1-s)$. Thus every nontrivial zero $\rho$ is accompanied by $1-\rho$, $\overline{\rho }$, and $1-\overline{\rho }$.

A nodal crossing locally consists of two complex branches meeting transversely and is not a one-dimensional complex manifold at the intersection.

For a plane algebraic curve this crossing is an ordinary double point, with two distinct tangent directions.

A homeomorphism to a complex manifold transports its atlas and thereby defines a complex structure on the source.

Removing a closed discrete set from a Riemann surface leaves an open complex one-manifold; if connected, it is again a Riemann surface.

The Riemann sphere is $\mathbb{C}\cup \{\infty \}$ with two charts related by reciprocal coordinates.

The extra point completes the complex plane into a compact Riemann surface. It is one point shared by every direction of escape: $n$, $-n$ and $in$ all tend to $\infty$ as $n\to \infty$. A basis of neighbourhoods at $\infty$ isThis is the one-point compactification of the complex plane; convergence to $\infty$ means that the modulus tends to infinity.^[ref]

For a concrete picture, use the unit sphereand identify $z=x+iy$ with $(x,y,0)$ in its equatorial plane. The north pole $N=(0,0,1)$ represents $\infty$ and the south pole $S=(0,0,-1)$ represents $0$. The stereographic projection below gives the identification. This convention fixes the scale: the equator corresponds to $|z|=1$.^[ref]

Why add this point? The Möbius transformation $z\mapsto 1/z$ then exchanges $0$ and $\infty$ and becomes a holomorphic map everywhere on the Riemann sphere. Its apparent blow-up at zero disappears when its output is expressed in the reciprocal chart at infinity: $w=1/(1/z)=z$. This is a concrete instance of a meromorphic function as a holomorphic map to the Riemann sphere. The additional point makes the complex plane compact, while its second manifold chart lets us do ordinary complex analysis near infinity.

For a degree-$d$ holomorphic map, $2g_X-2=d(2g_Y-2)+\sum (e_p-1)$.

Let $f:X\to Y$ be a nonconstant holomorphic map between compact Riemann surfaces that are connected spaces, without boundary. Write $g_X,g_Y$ for their genera and $d\ge 1$ for the degree of a holomorphic map. With analytic ramification index $e_p$ at each $p\in X$, the formula isHere $\chi =2-2g$ is the Euler characteristic. Only finitely many ramification points contribute. The holomorphic map is automatically surjective; the valency theorem gives ${\sum }_{p\in f^{-1}(y)}{e}_p=d$ even at a branch value of a holomorphic map. Constant maps are excluded.^[ref]

The useful interpretation is that total ramification of a holomorphic map measures how much the source Euler characteristic falls short of $d$ copies of the target. The ramification of a power map of the Riemann sphere spends that entire correction at two points; the double cover of the sphere with four branch values spends it at four points and produces a genus-one surface.

For a nonconstant analytic map $f:R\to S$ between compact connected Riemann surfaces, there is an integer $\mathrm{deg}f$ such that for every $w\in S$,

The degree counts sheets with multiplicity of the associated branched covering.

A complete analytic function is the collection of all continuations of a germ. Its Riemann surface consists of these germs, with projection to their base points.

A covering is regular when its deck group acts transitively on each fibre, equivalently when its fundamental-group subgroup is normal.

A real-valued function on a Riemann surface is harmonic when its expression in every holomorphic coordinate chart has vanishing planar Laplacian.

Two holomorphic functions on a connected Riemann surface that agree on a set with an accumulation point agree everywhere. Local charts reduce the proof to isolated zeros of a one-variable holomorphic function.

Every simply connected Riemann surface is biholomorphic to the Riemann sphere, the complex plane, or the unit disc.

If $\pi :S\to R$ is a covering of a Riemann surface, compose every chart on an evenly covered open set with each local inverse sheet of $\pi$. The resulting transition maps are those of $R$, so they define a unique complex structure making $\pi$ a local biholomorphism.