In mathematics, the Riemann sphere, named after Bernhard Riemann, is a model of the extended complex plane (also called the closed complex plane): the...
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different. For example, they can look like a sphere or a torus or several sheets glued together. Examples of Riemann surfaces include graphs of multivalued...
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\mathbf {P} ^{1}.} This is the Bloch sphere, which can be mapped to the Riemann sphere. The Bloch sphere is a unit 2-sphere, with antipodal points corresponding...
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a point at infinity is called the Riemann sphere. If f is a function that is meromorphic on the whole Riemann sphere, then it has a finite number of zeros...
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Möbius transformation (category Riemann surfaces)
the bijective conformal maps from the Riemann sphere to itself, i.e., the automorphisms of the Riemann sphere as a complex manifold; alternatively, they...
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complex numbers instead, the corresponding projective "line" is a sphere (the Riemann sphere), and then the extra point gives a 3-dimensional version of a...
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Meromorphic function (section On Riemann surfaces)
a meromorphic function can be defined for every Riemann surface. When D is the entire Riemann sphere, the field of meromorphic functions is simply the...
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Rhumb line (section On the Riemann sphere)
the Earth can be understood mathematically as a Riemann sphere, that is, as a projection of the sphere to the complex plane. In this case, loxodromes can...
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transformed into a perfect circle by some conformal map. A map of the Riemann sphere onto itself is conformal if and only if it is a Möbius transformation...
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Uniformization theorem (category Riemann surfaces)
connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to one of three Riemann surfaces: the open unit disk, the complex plane, or the Riemann sphere. The theorem...
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