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- From: dvf@kepler.unh.edu (David V Feldman)
- Subject: Exposition of Riemann Surfaces
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- Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:13:28 GMT
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- I am wondering if anyone has ever given an exposition of the
- basic theory of Riemann surfaces that systematically did everything
- on the universal covering space. The idea would be that having
- global coordinates would allow all objects such as differentials
- of various sorts to be viewed as functions with appropriate
- transformation properties, and theorems like Riemann-Roch, Serre
- Duality, Abel-Jacobi might be accessible, in some guise, to readers
- with only a basic knowledge of complex variables, but no significant
- background in topology, sheaves, cohomology and the like. I am
- especially thinking here of compact Riemann surfaces of genus greater
- than 2.
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- If no such exposition exists, in part, or in whole, I am interested
- in opinions on what parts of the theory would be awkward from this
- point of view.
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- David Feldman
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