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MA475 Riemann Surfaces

Example Sheets for 2020:

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Lecture notes from 2020:

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Older material is listed below.

Lecture notes for 2019:

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Lecture 9 The sphere, Group actions

Lecture 10 The torus. Main theorem statement

Lecture 11 Surfaces in C^2

Lecture 12 Hyper-elliptic surfaces

Lecture 13 More hyper-elliptic discussion

Lecture 14 Meromorphic functions, isolated singularities

Lecture 15 Meromorphic functions on S^2

Lecture 16 Local form for holomorphic functions

Lecture 17 Holomorphic 1 forms

Lecture 18 Holomorphic 1 forms on C^2

Lecture 19 Schwartz's Lemma

Lecture 20 Schwartz-Pick

Lecture 21 The degree theorem

Lecture 22 Riemann-Hurwitz

Lecture 23 Functions on T^2

Lecture 24 Weierstrass function

Lecture 25 Polynomial equation

Lecture 26 Conformal isomorphism

Lecture 27 Integration and periods

Lecture 28 Space of lattices

Lecture 29 Functions on moduli space

Lecture 30 Geometry of 1-forms

Example sheets for 2019:

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Course contents for 2018:

Topic outline

Definition of Riemann surfaces (Uploaded 13 April)

Implicit function theorem (Uploaded 16 April)

Affine and projective varieties (Uploaded May 14)

Local structure of holomorphic maps and structure of proper holomorphic maps (Uploaded 16 April)

Meromorphic functions on CP1 (Uploaded 15 April)

2018 Covering space notes (Updated 11 April)

2018 Weierstrass P functions and Riemann-Hurwitz (Updated 15 April)

Lecture notes from 2017:

Covering space discussion

Riemann surfaces and atlases

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Algebraic curves and holomorphic maps

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Topology and holomorphic maps

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The Weierstrass P function

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The uniformisation theorem and conclusion

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