Math 722: Graduate complex analysis 2007-2008



Instructor: W. Craig
Meeting times: Mon & Thurs 9:30 - 11:00
Office hours: Tues 2:00 - 3:30, HH418
Textbook:  Greene & Krantz, Function theory of one complex variable





Syllabus:

0) Introduction

1) Algebra

   i) the complex plane
   ii) fundamental theorem of arithmetic
   iii) complex values polynomials
   iv) Cauchy - Riemann equations
   v) real and holomorphic antiderivatives

2) Geometry

   i) real and complex line integrals
   ii) conformal maps
   iii) holomorphic antiderivatives
   iv) Cauchy integral theorem
   v) Cauchy integral formula

3) Analysis

   i) differentiability properties of holomorphic functions
   ii) Taylor series expansions of holomorphic functions
   iii) Cauchy estimates and Liouville's theorem
   iv) uniform convergence of holomorphic functions
   v) zeros of holomorphic functions

4) Meromorphic functions

   i) isolated singularities
   ii) Laurent expansions
   iii) calculus of residues
   iv) applications

5) Zeros and poles of meromorphic functions

   i) principle of argument
   ii) maximum modulus principle
   iii) Schwarz' lemma
   
6) Holomorphic mappings

   i) maps of C -> C and D -> D
   ii) linear fractional transformations, PSL(2,C)
   iii) Riemann mapping theorem

7) Riemann surfaces

   i) analytic continuation along curves
   ii) monodromy theorem
   iii) examples of Riemann surfaces
   iv) the modular surface and Picard's theorem
   v) elliptic functions

8)* Bergman kernel and biholomorphic mappings

   i) Hlbert spaces of holomorphic functions
   ii) Bergman kernel
   iii) boundary regularity of conformal maps