Let and be the universal covering maps of two one-dimensional complex tori. Every holomorphic map has a holomorphic lift between one-dimensional complex tori satisfying , and every such lift is an affine function
with . Indeed, for , the continuous function takes values in the discrete set and is therefore constant. Hence is -periodic. It is bounded on a compact fundamental parallelogram and therefore on the complex plane, so the Liouville theorem makes constant. If preserves the identity and the lift is chosen with , then and the lift is a linear map.
Complex modulus 2026-10-06
The complex modulus of is . It is the Euclidean norm of in the complex plane, and satisfies and the triangle inequality.
Entire function Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Fundamental parallelogram of a period lattice Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
A fundamental parallelogram for is a translate of
Its translates tile the complex plane.
Harmonic Liouville theorem Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A bounded harmonic function on the complex plane is constant. More generally, an entire harmonic function bounded on either side is constant: write it as by harmonic function as the real part of a holomorphic function, then apply the Liouville theorem to or .
Imaginary axis 2026-10-03
The imaginary axis is the set of complex numbers with . It is the vertical coordinate axis in the complex plane.
Nonconstant elliptic function has a pole Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If an elliptic function had no poles, it would be entire. It is bounded on the closure of a fundamental parallelogram, and periodicity then makes it bounded on the whole complex plane. The Liouville theorem would make it constant. Thus every nonconstant elliptic function has a pole.
Write with . In the complex plane, this is the vertical line through . The complex exponential gives , so its complex modulus is always . Conversely, every point of that modulus has an complex argument and is obtained in this way. The image is the entire circle centered at zero with radius , traversed repeatedly as varies; it is not a disk.
Figure 1.
The vertical line with real part one maps under the complex exponential to the circle of radius e
.
Write . Using the complex conjugate, the squared complex modulus on the left is . Squaring the equality and dividing by , which is nonzero, gives
Completing the square identifies the candidate circle:
Its centre is on the real axis and its radius is in the complex plane.
It remains to exclude extraneous points introduced by squaring. On this circle, , so the original right-hand side satisfies
Thus taking the nonnegative square root recovers the original equality at every point of the circle. This is a circle from an affine complex-modulus equation, with the sign check essential to the geometric conclusion.
A complex power series with radius of convergence converges absolutely at every with and diverges at every with . This makes no general assertion at : boundary points must be examined separately. The series always converges at . If , no nonzero point lies in the convergence disk; if , the series converges absolutely throughout the complex plane.
If is the zero polynomial, every coefficient vanishes, so . Otherwise let be its degree and its leading coefficient. Since ,
The ratio test therefore proves absolute convergence when . For , the terms do not tend to zero, so the series diverges. Thus the polynomial-coefficient power series has for every nonzero polynomial. In fact, it also diverges at every , because does not tend to zero, whether or .
Fix . We prove the Riemann mapping theorem in this case by maximizing a normalized derivative. Choose . Since is a simply connected domain and never vanishes, it has a holomorphic square root . This is injective, and is disjoint from : equality up to sign would first force the original points to coincide. Choose and with . The ball is omitted, so is a bounded univalent function. Scaling and composing with an automorphism of the unit disk produces an injective holomorphic function with and .
Let be the family of all such normalized univalent functions. A Cauchy estimate in a small disk about bounds their derivatives, so is finite and positive. Choose a maximizing sequence in this normal family. Montel theorem gives a subsequence converging uniformly on compact subsets to . Its derivative at is . The maximum modulus principle puts its image in , and Hurwitz's theorem implies that a nonconstant limit of injective holomorphic functions is injective. Thus the maximum is attained.
If is omitted, then . Put . A holomorphic square root of exists, is injective, and takes values in . Compose with and a rotation to normalize it. Writing , the new derivative has magnitude
a contradiction. Therefore maps onto . The Cayley transform between the half-plane and disk now gives
Its inverse is holomorphic by the holomorphic inverse function theorem, so this is a biholomorphism. The proper-subset hypothesis was used to choose ; the whole complex plane cannot be mapped this way, by Liouville theorem.