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2.9 Topology of Riemann surfaces<br />

One known fact about Riemann surfaces is that any Riemann surface is orientable. Recall that a manifold<br />

is orientable if its transition functions have positive Jacobian . Let Z be a Riemann surface, consider two<br />

intersecting charts U α and U β , and let z ∈ U α ∩ U β . Then we have<br />

df<br />

dz (z) = f ′ (z)<br />

as an R-matrix.<br />

We write f = u + iv, then df = α + iβ.<br />

β<br />

α ◦ β −1<br />

holomorphic<br />

α<br />

C<br />

By the Cauchy-Riemann equations, we have<br />

( α β<br />

df =<br />

−β α<br />

)<br />

and so<br />

Jac(α ◦ β −1 ) = det(D(α ◦ β −1 )) = |df| 2 = det(df) = α 2 + β 2 > 0.<br />

It is also known that every Riemann surface is obtained by attaching handles to CP 1 = S 2 .<br />

# handles = # holes = : topological genus = g<br />

∞<br />

0<br />

Theorem 2.9.1. Any Riemann surface is triangularizable.<br />

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