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On tube-log Riemann surfaces and primitives of rational functions

Complex Variables 2015-12-15 v1

Abstract

For a generic class of rational functions, we give an explicit description of the flat structure on the Riemann sphere induced by a meromorphic 1-form R(z)dz, where R is a rational function. The rational functions in the generic class we consider have only simple poles. We show that the flat structure may be obtained by pasting isometrically flat half-cylinders to a 'log-polygon', which is a domain bounded by straight line segments in a simply connected finite sheeted branched cover of C.

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@article{arxiv.1512.04035,
  title  = {On tube-log Riemann surfaces and primitives of rational functions},
  author = {Kingshook Biswas and Ricardo Perez-Marco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04035},
  year   = {2015}
}