A proof of the Weierstraß gap theorem not using the Riemann-Roch formula

DOI10.1007/S00026-019-00459-2MaRDI QIDQ2299127zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cristian-Silviu Radu, Peter Paule

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-019-00459-2

zbMATH Keywords

modular functionsWeierstraß gap theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Partitions; congruences and congruential restrictions (11P83) Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55)

Review text

Let \(X\) be a compact Riemann surface with genus \(g\ge 1\). The Weierstrass gap theorem states that for each \(P\in X\), there are exactly \(g\) integers, \(n_j(P)\), with \[ 1=n_1(P)< n_2(P) < \cdots < n_g(P) \le 2g-1 \] such that there is no meromorphic function on \(X\) which is holomorphic on \(X-\{P\}\) and has a pole of order \(n_j(P)\) at \(P\). The proof of the theorem is an application of the Riemann-Roch Theorem. The authors propose an alternative combinatorial proof that makes use of ideas from modular function algebras, integral bases and Puiseux series.

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