Circle Laurent coefficients and the two-circle Cauchy formula #
The circle integral defining a Laurent coefficient is independent of its positive radius
provided the function is continuous on the intervening closed annulus and complex
differentiable outside a countable exceptional set in its open interior. Under the same
hypotheses, the two-circle Cauchy formula represents the function between the circles by
the difference of its outer and inner Cauchy integrals, even at exceptional points.
Neither result assumes that the function extends across the center: isolated essential
singularities are allowed. When f is complex-differentiable on a circle with circle-integrable
derivative, integrating around the circle also expresses the Laurent coefficients of deriv f in
terms of those of f (circleLaurentCoeff_deriv_of_differentiableAt, circleLaurentCoeff_deriv).
The construction uses Mathlib's Cauchy-Goursat theorem for annuli,
Complex.circleIntegral_eq_of_differentiable_on_annulus_off_countable, and its removable
divided difference dslope. These are the integral ingredients for splitting a Laurent
expansion into its positive and negative parts. The divided-difference proof of the
two-circle formula is adapted from Mathlib's
Complex.circleIntegral_sub_inv_smul_of_differentiable_on_off_countable_aux,
by Yury Kudryashov, from a disc to an annulus. To include exceptional evaluation points,
we reuse Mathlib's local power-series theorem, whose Cauchy formula extends to those points
by continuity and closure.
For the classical Cauchy and Laurent formulas, see John B. Conway, Functions of One Complex Variable I, Chapters IV (Complex Integration) and V (Singularities).
The coefficient of degree n extracted by a circle of radius R centered at c.
For functions continuous on a closed annulus and complex differentiable outside a countable
set in its interior, circleLaurentCoeff_eq_of_differentiable_on_annulus_off_countable
makes this independent of the choice of circle within that annulus.
Instances For
The circle-integral formula for the integer-indexed Laurent coefficient.
The nonnegative Laurent coefficients are exactly the coefficients of Mathlib's Cauchy power series, even for the degenerate circle of radius zero.
Coefficient extraction depends only on the values on the integrating circle.
Every coefficient of the zero function vanishes.
Extracting coefficients commutes with complex scalar multiplication.
Multiplying a function by (z - c) ^ m shifts its coefficients by m: the coefficient of
degree n of (z - c) ^ m • f z is the coefficient of degree n - m of f.
Extracting coefficients is additive for functions integrable on the circle.
The Cauchy estimate for any integer Laurent coefficient, including negative degrees and the degenerate circle of radius zero.
The Laurent coefficient does not change when a circle moves through a closed annulus on which the function is continuous and complex differentiable away from a countable exceptional set in the open annulus.
On an open concentric annulus Metric.eball c R \ Metric.closedBall c r, any two interior
radii ρ₁, ρ₂ ∈ (r, R) yield identical circleLaurentCoeff values when f is continuous on the
open annulus and complex-differentiable outside a countable subset.
A Laurent monomial has precisely its prescribed coefficient, in every integer degree.
The circle integral of the divided difference dslope f w around a circle avoiding w is
the difference of the Cauchy integral of f and the circle integral of (z - w)⁻¹ times f w.
Only integrability of f on the circle is needed.
The two-circle Cauchy formula on an annulus. The function is continuous on the closed annulus and complex differentiable outside a countable exceptional set in the open annulus. The evaluation point may belong to the exceptional set.
If f is complex-differentiable at every point of Metric.sphere c R (0 < R) and deriv f
is circle-integrable on C(c, R), then the n-th circle Laurent coefficient of deriv f equals
(n + 1) • circleLaurentCoeff f c R (n + 1).
For f complex-differentiable on an open concentric annulus
Metric.eball c R \ Metric.closedBall c r and any interior circle radius ρ ∈ (r, R), the n-th
circle Laurent coefficient of deriv f equals (n + 1) • circleLaurentCoeff f c ρ (n + 1).