An Introduction to Riemann Surfaces and Algebraic Curves: Complex 1-Tori and Elliptic Curves

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An Introduction to Riemann Surfaces and Algebraic Curves Complex 1-Tori and Elliptic Curves by Dr. T.E. Venkata Balaji, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit httpwww.nptel.iitm.ac.insyllabus111106044Goals of the Lecture- To look at the set of all possible Riemann surface structures on a cylinder and theneed for a method to distinguish between them- To explain the motivation for the use of the Theory of Covering Spaces to distinguishRiemann surface structures- To motivate the notion of a covering map by examples- To get introduced to the fact (called General Uniformisation) that any Riemann surfaceis the quotient (via a covering map) of a suitable simply connected Riemann surface- To understand the idea of the Fundamental group and where it fits into our discussionKeywords for Lecture 6Cylinder, punctured plane, punctured unit disc, annulus, Riemanns Theorem on removable singularities, covering map, covering space, pathwise connected, locally pathwise connected, admissible neighbourhood or admissible open set, universal covering space or simply connected covering space, fundamental group, uniformisation of a general Riemann surface