Domains in
Definition 2.1.1
Take
and let
be a positive real number. The open ball with center
and radius
is
.
In Figure 1,
we display the open unit disk, which is
.
Figure 1: The unit disk.
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Definition 2.1.2
An open neighborhood of
is a subset of
containing an open ball centered at
. The most used neighborhoods are the open balls themselves.
Definition 2.1.4
A punctured neighborhood of
contains all the points of a neighborhood of
, excepted
itself.
Example 2.1.5
is a punctured neighborhood of 0.
Definition 2.1.6
Let
be a subset of
. It is an open subset of
if, for each point
, there exists an open ball centered at
and included in
. .
In other words,
is an open susbet of
if, and only if, the following condition holds:
Proposition
2.1.8
Let
and
be two open subsets of
. Then the following hold:
1.
is open.
2.
is open.
Figure 4: Intersection of two
open subsets of
.
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Example 2.1.11
The closed unit-disk
is a closed set, as its complementary set is open: it is
(see Figure 5).
For any
, i.e. for any
such that
, let
; then we have
.
Figure 5: A closed set.
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The following proposition will be very useful throughout our study of
analytic functions (chapter chapter analytic functions) and further.
Proof. Denote
and take any
. Now denote
(i.e.
is the distance between the images in the palne of the complex numbers
and
). The set
is a finite set of positive real numbers, thus it has a minimal element, say
. Using the triangle inequality, it is easy to show that
.
Proposition
2.1.13
Let
and
be two closed subsets of
. Then the following hold:
1.
is closed.
2.
is closed.
The proof is left to the reader, using De Morgan laws.
Definition 2.1.17
A boundary point of a set
is a point
in
such that every ball centered at
contains at least one point of
and at least one point not in
. The set of all the boundary points of
is called the boundary of
.
Definition 2.1.19
An interior point of a set
is a point
such that there exists an open ball centered at
and totally contained in
. An exterior point of a set
is a point
such that there exists an open ball centered at
and all of whose points are out of
(see Fig. 9(b)).
Definition 2.1.21
A bounded set
is a set for which there exists a positive number
such that
(i.e. it is composed only of interior points of a certain circle centered at
0).
Remark 2.1.23
There is no connection between the notions of a closed set (definition
1.10)
and of a bounded set (defintion
1.21). We mean a set can have either both properties, or only one of
them, or none of them. For example:
(i)
The set
is closed and bounded.
(ii)
The unit ball
is bounded nut not closed.
(iii)
The set
is closed but unbounded.
(iv)
The set
is neither closed nor bounded.
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